The curse of individualism
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Sometime in the 1980s, a number of key left-wing ideas were threatened with extinction. One of them was “ideology”, in the sense of false consciousness. False consciousness was the term Engels coined to refer to those values adopted by the working class, which caused them to act against their own interest. But to call a statement false seemed to imply some absolute truth against which it could be measured, and notions of absolute truth had become about as plausible as the Virgin birth. The word
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