Comments on: THE STATE, CLASS AND FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-state-class-and-false-consciousness-within-the-american-working-class/ Media Democracy In Action Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Media Freedom Foundation Project Censored Report by the President: Peter Phillips 2012-2013 | Dailycensored.com http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-state-class-and-false-consciousness-within-the-american-working-class/comment-page-1/#comment-14915 Media Freedom Foundation Project Censored Report by the President: Peter Phillips 2012-2013 | Dailycensored.com Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:47:22 +0000 http://www.projectcensored.org/?p=2514#comment-14915 [...] Also see Dr. Jeremy Cloward’s original article http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-state-class-and-false-consciousness-within-t... and Dr. Peter Phillips recent op-ed [...] [...] Also see Dr. Jeremy Cloward’s original article http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-state-class-and-false-consciousness-within-t… and Dr. Peter Phillips recent op-ed [...]

]]> By: Pcrawley08 http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-state-class-and-false-consciousness-within-the-american-working-class/comment-page-1/#comment-14898 Pcrawley08 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:34:00 +0000 http://www.projectcensored.org/?p=2514#comment-14898 Guess I'll just open my own contracting firm, get into the petty class, eat healthy exercise, invest in the future(oil, blue chippers, etc.), and stay out of the way, b/c Americans are stupid and tired and lazy and brainwashed..It's worthless man Guess I’ll just open my own contracting firm, get into the petty class, eat healthy exercise, invest in the future(oil, blue chippers, etc.), and stay out of the way, b/c Americans are stupid and tired and lazy and brainwashed..It’s worthless man

]]> By: Guest reader http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-state-class-and-false-consciousness-within-the-american-working-class/comment-page-1/#comment-14649 Guest reader Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:41:00 +0000 http://www.projectcensored.org/?p=2514#comment-14649 I give you an A+ on writing a Marxist paper that is academically solid and applies to current issues.  However, when it comes to reality, Marxism overgeneralizes and makes assumptions that aren't realistic.  For example:  1) the "working class" is a large number of people living in different regions with different cultures and circumstances that don't really have the same interests that you assume in the paper.   More people identify with language, region, religion and other things that "class."  2) the media being controlled by the elite is true to some extent but there are many other international sources especially with the internet.  Most of project censored stories do end up on major news outlets eventually.  3)  assumptions about US involvement in Afghanistan are questionable.  The goals are to create a stable country that won't be run by Taliban like leaders.  It's not America's fault that Afghanistan is a mess and nobody else will do anything about it.  Same with other countries. These are just a few critiques.  Marxism boils down complex issues to simplistic terms that don't reflect reality.  Health care, wars, energy, elections and poverty are huge problems that require time  and political will to solve.  If everyone did vote (only 40% of eligible voters do) we could have better representatives.  Unfortunately people just don't care and most of those people are the "working class" who let others rule them.  Stupid people get what they deserve and that's what most of the American public are.  Sorry to disappoint anyone who reads this. Bravo on a good research paper. I give you an A+ on writing a Marxist paper that is academically solid and applies to current issues. 

However, when it comes to reality, Marxism overgeneralizes and makes assumptions that aren’t realistic.  For example:  1) the “working class” is a large number of people living in different regions with different cultures and circumstances that don’t really have the same interests that you assume in the paper.   More people identify with language, region, religion and other things that “class.”  2) the media being controlled by the elite is true to some extent but there are many other international sources especially with the internet.  Most of project censored stories do end up on major news outlets eventually.  3)  assumptions about US involvement in Afghanistan are questionable.  The goals are to create a stable country that won’t be run by Taliban like leaders.  It’s not America’s fault that Afghanistan is a mess and nobody else will do anything about it.  Same with other countries.

These are just a few critiques.  Marxism boils down complex issues to simplistic terms that don’t reflect reality.  Health care, wars, energy, elections and poverty are huge problems that require time  and political will to solve.  If everyone did vote (only 40% of eligible voters do) we could have better representatives.  Unfortunately people just don’t care and most of those people are the “working class” who let others rule them.  Stupid people get what they deserve and that’s what most of the American public are.  Sorry to disappoint anyone who reads this.

Bravo on a good research paper.

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