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    Defining Marx's Class Consciousness and False Consciousness
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    1. isabel_csumb 07 Oct 2025
      ecades' worth of demographic data reveals that the American Dream and its promise of upward mobility is largely a myth. In truth, the economic class a person is born into is the primary determinant of how he or she will fair economically as an adult.

      This is so important to note. Throughout our life we were promised hard work pays off. In my life I've seen so many people work so hard and still be stuck in the same place for the rest of their life. It is a false reality to keep people working for the people exploiting them for profit.

    2. isabel_csumb 07 Oct 2025
      Individualistic rather than collective in nature,

      This is capitalism. It is supposed to make people assume that they have options because they have "free individuality" but it comes at a bigger, more expensive and oppressive cost than assumed. (environmental, 1% of wealthy people having majority of the wealth in the nation, redlining, etc)

    3. isabel_csumb 07 Oct 2025
      He reasoned that the system only functioned as long as the workers did not recognize their unity as a class of laborers, their shared economic and political interests, and the power inherent in their numbers.

      This makes so much sense. We have seen, especially in the current administration that has been making people pit against each other, distracting them from the fact the biggest war they are in, is the people in power.

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