Class Consciousness and False Consciousness
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Class consciousness is a class's accurate grasp of its own position and shared interest; false consciousness is a mistaken grasp of it, held in terms serving another class.
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Workers competing against each other for a shrinking wage pool, rather than acting together on the wage, illustrate the second.
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False consciousness is a claim about interests, never a judgment of anyone's intelligence.