RE: Can we have an honest, balanced, down to earth discussion about feminism?
August 26, 2012 at 12:22 am
Quote:Oh, I think women created some of the bias themselves.
Classic Marxist position. IE that victims contribute to their own victimisation,in part by accepting the values and world view of their oppressors. (false consciousness)
Quote:False consciousness is the Marxist thesis that material and institutional processes in capitalist society are misleading to the proletariat, and to other classes. These processes betray the true relations of forces between those classes, and the real state of affairs regarding the development of pre-socialist society (relative to the secular development of human society in general).
In Marxist theory, false consciousness is essentially a result of ideological control which the proletariat either do not know they are under or which they disregard with a view to their own POUM (probability/possibility of upward mobility).[1] POUM or something like it is required in economics with its presumption of rational agency; otherwise wage laborers would be the conscious supporters of social relations antithetical to their own interests, violating that presumption.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consciousness
