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False Class Consciousness (Theory)

Traditional Marxists note that the proletariat despite being exploited by the bourgeoisie, mostly accept bourgeois rule, seeming to consider it normal, unavoidable or even desirable. They argue that this happens because the bourgeoisie transmit their ideology through what Louis Althusser termed ideological state apparatus which led to the workers not having class consciousness (being conscious of their social class and how it is treated in the class system) and instead take on the bourgeois ideology itself: to have a misguided or false view of their own position in society. This was one of the concepts that led Popper to accuse Marxism of being a "faux science" (false science) because it was a concept that could not be subject to falsification.

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