False Consciousness, Inadequate Idea, Private Property

The internalization of Ideology, called 'False Consciousness' by Marxists, though not by Marx himself, is a special case of taking Appearance for Reality, termed by Spinoza 'Inadequate Idea'. Now, the immediate example of the latter in Spinoza's system is the interpretation of Mind itself as 'one's own', independent of any other existent, i. e. as not a mode of some general power. On that basis, the widely-accepted Idealist concept of Consciousness as exhaustively internal in the Individual is likewise Inadequate. Thus, even the most fundamental private property claim of Capitalism, which, as has been previously discussed, is Epistemologically Idealist, is an expression of False Consciousness.