Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 22:14:44 -0500
From: Ian Robert Douglas <Ian_Robert_Douglas-AT-Brown.edu>
Subject: Re: madness


>Just a question: what Ian said about D and G remind me a bit of the
'false 

>consciousness' idea. 


it is strange that 'false consciousness' is what they're trying to
debunk

by getting us to think about the false <italic>conscience</italic> of
false consciousness! 

The masses are not manipulated by power; they <italic>want</italic> to
be dominated.

Its not so much that they're falsely conscious as their conscience
doesn't

allow them to admit their own desire.  They wanted fascism, but cannot

bear to admit it ..

   (not, of course, that D&G care much for 'accusation')

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