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• In essence, false consciousness is the opposite of class consciousness.
• 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 interes
• Marx saw false consciousness as a product of an unequal social system controlled by a powerful minority of elite
• Marx cited the phenomenon of commodity fetishism
• He believed that commodity fetishism served to obscure the fact that relations with regard to production within a capitalist system are actually relationships between people, and that as such, they are changeable

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