Newsletter XVI 2022 |
April 15-21
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Nuclear Power Accidents
This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of the civil and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only came to the public in a roundabout way...
Excerpt for this month:
3 April 1960 (INES 4) WTR-2 reactor, Waltz Mill, USA
5 April 1968 (INES 5 NAMS 5) nuclear factory Mayak, USSR
6 April 1993 (INES 4 NAMS 4,8) nuclear factory Tomsk 7, RUS
7 April 1989 (Broken Arrow) Submarine K-278 sank south of Bear Island, USSR
10 April 2003 (INES 3 NAMS 3,9) Paks, HUN
April 10th to May 15st, 1967 (INES ? Class.?) Nuclear factory Mayak, USSR
10 April 1963, Submarine SSN-593 sank 350 km from Cape Cod, USA
11 April 1970 (Broken Arrow) Submarine K-8 sank in the Bay of Biscay, USSR
11 April 1968, Submarine K-129 sunk 2900 km northwest of Hawaii, USSR
19 April 2005 (INES 3) nuclear factory Sellafield, GBR
21 April 1957 (INES 4) nuclear factory Mayak, USSR
26 April 1986 (INES 7 NAMS 8) Chernobyl, USSR
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21. April
Children in the United States die most often from gunshot wounds
Traffic accidents have been the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the United States. In the meantime, that has changed.
"America" by Ramstein | We're all living in Amerika, Amerika ist wunderbar ...
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war | MIC | United States | Armaments
The audacity of bellicoses
Billions and billions for the war, more and more weapons and more and more propaganda. What end can this lead to? But very few in politics and the media seem to be asking themselves this question. Instead, Russia is being rushed and rearmed. Anyone who asks about the causes of the war in Ukraine and its social development since the regime change of 2014 makes themselves suspicious, is discriminated against and is threatened with deprivation of livelihood. This is how it has been in the "land of poets and thinkers" for a number of years and exaggerated to the extreme for a few months...
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The current "Uranium Atlas"
Nuclear power does not create energy independence
Uranium from Russia is fuel for European nuclear power plants
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United States | Natural gas | Greenwashing | fossil
LPG Manufacturing in the USA:
Polluting air for gas exports
A US company wants to suspend limit values for carcinogenic gases. They justify this with the increasing exports to Europe.
In the USA, the liquefied gas producer Cheniere Energy is trying to have environmental protection measures suspended with reference to the planned liquefied gas imports to Europe ...
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Teaching material for pupils on the topic of "Putin's attack on peace".
"Make it clear" is the title of a publication published by the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württenberg, the latest edition is entitled: "War in Ukraine - Putin's Attack on Peace". The cover picture, a caricature, gives an inkling of where the educational journey of the learning young people might be heading. With all due care - during the reading it is not recognisable that with such material for a school lesson young learners could be formed into critical, attentive, questioning adults. Rather, the content and ideological orientation of the booklet is in line with the framing of many media products that "we", the West, are the good guys and Russia is the bad guy. Sure, NATO is a defensive alliance and the enemy for the world is Russia ...
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Radioactivity remeasured around Chernobyl
New mapping reveals hotspots of radioactive contamination within the exclusion zone
Unexpectedly topical: Shortly before the start of the war in Ukraine, German-Ukrainian measurement teams remeasured the radioactive contamination around Chernobyl. The maps show in high resolution where the "hotspots" of gamma radiation and radioactive cesium pollution are in the exclusion zone. This can now be used to determine changes caused by the war and to protect workers from radiation during clean-up work.
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The operation of Eastern European nuclear plants is dependent on Russian supplies
Explosive air freight
Eastern European EU countries in particular are dependent on supplies from Russia for the operation of their nuclear plants. For these there are even exceptions to the sanctions.
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21 April 1957 - (INES 4) Nuclear factory Mayak - Criticality accident in containers with highly enriched uranium. Too much uranium solution had collected in a container in a glove box, making it critical. The container then burst open and parts of the solution ran into the glove box. One worker received a radiation dose of 30 to 46 Gray and died 12 days later. Five other workers in the same room were exposed to over 3 Grays each and subsequently became radiation sick. Five other people received doses of up to 1 Gray...
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20. April
Great Britain | MIC | United States
UK court agrees to extradite Assange to US
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if convicted in the US. The extradition decision required for this was issued in London on Wednesday – but the final decision is still pending.
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MIC | United States | Armaments
William D. Hartung and Julia Gledhill: The New Gold Rush
How Pentagon contractors are benefiting from the Ukraine crisis
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Turkey | Iraq | war | Kurds | MIC
Major Turkish offensive: Oppressive silence from the West
"Community of values" remains silent: Despite a war of aggression, the West does not even dare to criticize Turkey.
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Easter March | Peace | MIC
This is how the peace movement got into a NATO impasse
From "Nine Eleven" to the Arab Spring. A Look at the Shifts in Anti-Military and Anti-War Activism (Part 2 and Conclusion)
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After a month of interruption: communication between Chernobyl and Kiev restored
According to reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), communication between the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the Ukrainian supervisory authority has been restored. This had been disrupted for about a month. IAEA head Rafael Grossi spoke of an important step in the process of resuming regulatory control.
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renewable | Solar | wind | usury | Merit order
More than half of the electricity requirement at Easter is covered by renewable energies
Over Easter, renewable energies covered more than half of the electricity consumption in Germany.
From Good Friday to Easter Monday, the average wholesale electricity price in Germany was 142,81 euros per megawatt hour ...
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Peace | Climate protection | fossil
Luisa Neubauer calls for gas embargo against Russia
Peace doesn't come for nothing, says climate protection activist Luisa Neubauer. Despite the burden on Germany, she insists on an import ban not only for coal, but also for oil and gas from Russia.
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With sound waves against liver cancer
Partial destruction of the tumor with ultrasound makes the cancer disappear completely
Hope against liver cancer: A special form of ultrasound can help against tumors and metastases in the liver - even if the tumors were only partially destroyed, as a study with rats demonstrates. Although only 50 to 75 percent of their liver tumors were exposed to the so-called histotripsy, 81 percent of the animals were completely cancer-free afterwards. There were also no metastases, as the researchers report...
Does this make irradiation with radioactive rays superfluous as part of a therapy against Cancer ?
That would be the end of the all-too-beautiful story of the power of atoms in medicine.
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19. April
Sweden | China | solar research
Thermal Energy Storage System
New system stores solar energy for 18 years
- The Thermal Energy Storage System (MOST) can store solar energy for 18 years
- To do this, it uses isomers that are deformed by the sun's rays
- These molecules can then release the stored solar energy as heat
Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage Systems (MOST)
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CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
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Panel discussion on the planned interim storage facility for nuclear waste in Würgassen
For the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Würgassen working group of the citizens' initiative Livable Bördeland and Diemeltal sees no time for resignation.
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Solar tender: All projects are awarded a contract
For the first time since the introduction of photovoltaic auctions, all projects will receive a market premium. The increase in the tender volume is having an effect and is accelerating the energy transition.
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Exit from Russia's gas
Denmark wants to free itself from Putin
The Danish government presents a plan to phase out Russian gas. The aim is to be "free of Putin", explained Dan Jörgensen, Minister for Climate and Energy.
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Resistance | Climate protection | fossil
"Stop the fossil madness": climate activists tear up the ground in front of the Ministry of Economic Affairs
Disguised as construction workers, activists from the climate protest group "Last Generation" tore up the sidewalk in front of the Federal Ministry of Economics in Berlin. They laid down pipes that said "Qatar Stream" and sat in front of the building's entrance with a banner that read "Stop the fossil madness."
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Easter March | Peace | MIC
How the peace movement became "Putin's fifth column".
From "Ohne-mich" to "Petting instead of Pershing" and the Monday vigils to the Ukraine war: A look at the changes in activism against the military and war (Part 1)
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19 April 2005 - (INES 4) Sellafield nuclear plant - In April 2005, a leak was discovered in Sellafield, through which around 83.000 liters of radioactive liquid, consisting of nitric acid, uranium and plutonium, escaped unnoticed for months. The cost of this event is estimated at 76 million dollars ...
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18. April
Easter March | Ukraine | war
Just a few nuclear bombs
Thousands of people took part in the traditional Easter marches for a "peace without weapons" in Ukraine. Public opinion, however, is shaped by others, for example the FDP politician Alexander Lambsdorff, who describes the participants in the Easter marches as Putin's 5th column.
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Power supply:
How liquefied natural gas from Canada is set to replace Russian supplies
Investors want to build the most climate-friendly gas terminal in the world on the Atlantic coast. However, the authorities refused due to environmental concerns. Then the Ukraine war began - and now the project could come after all, for the sake of the Europeans.
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Natural gas | Russia | usury | fossil
Oil and gas imports:
Germany will probably transfer record sums to Moscow this year
A Greenpeace study predicts that German customers will pay around 2022 billion euros for Russian oil and gas in 32 - more than they have in years. Is the Kremlin profiting from the war of aggression against Ukraine in the raw materials business?
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NATO | Poland | Finland | nuclear war
NATO is increasing the risk of nuclear war on Russia's border
Nato missiles in Poland and soon in Finland are throwing the balance of terror into disarray.
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Military Strategies: How the Nuclear Threat Has Increased
The danger of a nuclear confrontation has not only become more concrete since the Russian attack on Ukraine. There is no debate about it
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Quantity continues to grow
Several tons of nuclear waste are waiting for disposal in Japan
Japan's nuclear power plants store more than 57.000 tons of nuclear waste that needs to be disposed of. The magnitude of this amount underscores the Japanese government's plan to change a law banning the export of radioactive waste.
The data on the Fukushima No. 1 power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. were not taken into account. The Tohoku Electric Power Co. declined to provide data ...
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Natural gas | Qatar | Algeria | Libya
First of all, a pious wish: Russian natural gas deliveries cannot be replaced
Energy supply Qatar, Algeria and Libya cannot replace Russia as a supplier. The EU is faced with a problem
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17. April
Climate & Environment | wind | Solar | Storage | fossil
Energy system without fossils
The anti-Putin battery in the basement
House solar storage systems, submarine cables and other technologies help against the "dark doldrums" in which there is hardly any wind for days and little sun shines. What an energy system can look like without the fossils - Part 4.
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Fracking collateral damage
The Berlin traffic light government wants fracking gas from the USA as soon as possible and is willing to pay a lot for it – and for us
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MIC | United States | Arms trade
What would it take to reduce military spending in America?
A thought experiment about the military-industrial complex in a country whose new normal is war.
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16. April
Easter March | Ukraine | war | Media
Peace marches in times of war:
"I'm not sitting in a basement in Ukraine either"
Russia launches a war of aggression in Ukraine. But many in the peace movement are still pushing for dialogue with Putin. This is more than a dilemma. Impressions of the Easter March in Berlin.
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Solidarity as an ideology: The "free world" against "Putin's Russia"
Philosophical reflections on a solidarity that no longer just wants to help, but calls for armed conflict.
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And yet: Laboratories in Ukraine were researching biological warfare agents
The US Department of Defense funded contracts to Ukrainian laboratories to ward off "bioterrorist attacks".
Ironically, Hunter Biden, son of the US President, is said to have engineered such deals. This emerges from leaked emails from a Biden laptop. The authenticity of all emails is still disputed.
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Easter March | awareness | Media
Lambsdorff: Easter march organizers are not pacifists
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff described the participants in the Easter marches as "Vladimir Putin's fifth column". In the WDR interview, the FDP politician followed up today.
Pacifists are always to blame … 1 | 2
awareness | MIC | Media | Arms trade
Everyone is vibrating with excitement and talking only about the atomic bomb.
Nuclear war is currently at the top of the list of the most popular talk show topics in both Western and Eastern countries mass dementias media. The only relevant question at the moment seems to be: When is the time and how can I and my phone survive with the cat pictures on it?
MIC - the military-industrial complex - triumphant, in Germany alone they have brought in an additional 100 billion in the last few weeks and if PutIn "The Most Terrible" falls into the trap and also "only" uses a nuclear weapon in the Ukraine, the flow of money will not dry up until the end of mankind .
MIK is a worldwide, first-class functioning system, the members, mostly ex-military, are in banks, media, politics and administration, everywhere in Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
The 5 major nuclear weapon states have a veto right in the UN Security Council and can thus control or even stop any development. Of course, the 9 states that have nuclear weapons in their arsenal feel extremely important and dance in the nose of the other 95% of the states in the world. This is the power of the few over the majority, or simply nuclear blackmail.
Catch the thieves
They steal thoughts and words, twist them 180 degrees and feed the media these sense-deprived buzzwords to confuse people. The Nuclear lobby has already successfully hijacked words like Climate protection and CO2 free to promote the most toxic of all forms of energy production, nuclear power, and now the pocket filler of Arms industry and rape words like Solidarity and freedom fightto buy or sell even more weapons.
As always, of course, they are Pacifiststo blame for the war because they prevented the attack victim from investing enough in armor beforehand, so the aggressor's deterrence didn't work. With this perfidious logic, MIC even succeeds in turning Bombs into Doves of peace.
With their tax payments, people finance the weapons that threaten themselves. When the overview is lost, it helps to ask the question:
Where does the money go? ...
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The joint responsibility of the USA and NATO – warnings have been given several times about the eastward expansion of NATO
Almost all western media are now reporting and commenting on the war in Ukraine as if it were a total surprise. Since 1994, however, Russian, US and other top politicians and political scientists have issued explicit warnings against an eastward expansion of NATO. But Bill Clinton wanted enlargement - unspoken but clearly against Russia.
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Plants bloom earlier and earlier
What cherry blossoms reveal about the climate crisis
Plants sprout and bloom earlier in the year. This is the conclusion of a new study. What the cherry blossom can tell us about climate change.
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15. April
"Symbols of Aggression and War Crimes"
Berlin CDU calls for the dismantling of Russian war tanks
The tanks should disappear from the Berlin cityscape, said the deputy leader of the Berlin CDU, Stefanie Bung, the Tagesspiegel.
The CDU currently only stands for hysterically stupid symbolic politics against German interests and in its self-portrayal it offers the digitally prettied-up image of a long-worn-out party without a plan. The rider of the dead horse, Friedrich Merz, will soon throw himself into the arms of the AFD, only a matter of time.
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Ukraine | war | Peace | Arms trade
"Risk of Escalation to Nuclear War"
Green politician Ströbele warns against tank deliveries to Ukraine
There is disagreement over arms deliveries to Ukraine. The Greens politician Hans-Christian Ströbele is now warning against deliveries of tanks - and suspects that this could make the use of nuclear weapons by Russia more likely.
Demands are increasing for Chancellor Olaf Scholz to also deliver heavy weapons to Ukraine. Kyiv is putting pressure on it, but the controversies are also getting hotter in its own coalition. Hans-Christian Ströbele is now warning of the delivery of German tanks to the war country...
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No weapons for Ukraine? "This amounts to submission pacism"
Due to his hesitation to deliver heavy weapons to Ukraine, the Chancellor is coming under increasing pressure. Political scientist Herfried Münkler is critical of Scholz's attitude in the WDR interview.
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World record in solar cell research
Making solar cells even better so that they make a decisive contribution to the energy transition - this is the goal pursued by researchers at the University of Wuppertal's Department of Electronic Components. Now they have achieved a breakthrough with a world record. Her work on this was recently published in the renowned journal "Nature".
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Easter Marches: We Can Win the Peace
Opinion War is the father of all cruelties. There are ways to overcome it. But for that you need a new system
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Habeck calls for energy saving
Economics Minister Habeck calls for an increase in arms deliveries to Ukraine. He calls on the Germans to save energy - also to annoy Putin.
Quo Vadis, Greens? Create peace with more and more weapons?!
MIK has certainly already had two pretty cowboy hats made for Habeck and Hofreiter, and GW Bush will personally put them on their bowed heads the next time they visit the USA.
How far will the Greens' voters go with this policy?
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News+ April 15
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consumption | Ukraine | war | Media
Ukraine: When consumers want to prevent a war
You can't create peace with arms, nor with renunciation or individual abstention.
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Class struggle instead of illusionary consumer ideology
The mixture of ineffective consumer consciousness and dangerous ukranophilia would have to be countered with class consciousness. Not the consumers, but the workers can actually intervene in the war. There are not only historical but also current examples of this. In Belarus, for example, workers refused to transport Russian military equipment. Wage earners in Italy and Greece refused to pass on NATO weapons
However, such reports are hardly mentioned in the local media. They would eventually give an indication of where the lever is to prevent wars by organizing not as consumers but as workers. This has not changed for more than 100 years, after workers ended World War I through revolutions, nor has the urge of the capitalist blocs to go to war. The conflict in Ukraine between NATO and Russia is just the current example.
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Background knowledge
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reaktorpleite.de
Map of the nuclear world:
We need to get away from fossil thinking!
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The internal search:
brought the following results, among others:
April 25, 2021 - MiK gears up for important battles to come
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low-level radioactive radiation ... Knowledge can be pushed out of people's consciousness.
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YouTube channel - Reaktorpleite
ZDF - Terra X Lesch & Co - March 10, 2022 - 17:38 p.m
No gas from Russia? This has to happen now!
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NDR - Panorama 3 - April 29, 2021 - 08:26
Climate neutral heating? Looking for alternatives to gas
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climate:neutral - March 02, 2022 - 11:24
War: Fatal for people and the climate!
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arte - November 20, 2011 - 59:48
The True Story of the 1st Gulf War
Playlist - radioactivity worldwide ...
This playlist contains over 150 videos on the topic
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Ecosia
This search engine is planting trees!
Keyword search: consumerism+class consciousness
https://www.ecosia.org/search?tt=mzl2&q=Konsumverhalten+Klassenbewusstsein
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Nuremberg institute for market decisions eV
Sustainable consumption – just lip service?
In this context, a research cooperation between the University of Potsdam, the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, the Leibniz University of Hanover, the Technical University of Braunschweig and the GfK Verein is investigating in a joint project the practicability of a survey instrument newly developed by the four universities to record sustainable consumer awareness. ..
The results show that agreement with ethical and moral statements is generally in the upper range. This often makes a realistic economic assessment of sustainability issues based on surveys difficult because the relevance is overestimated if you only look at the absolute response levels ...
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Wikipedia
Buying behavior
Purchasing behavior or consumer behavior (also buyer behavior, consumer behavior or customer behavior) refers to the behavior of the buyer in relation to the purchase of goods or the use of services.
Many sciences and types of science intertwine on this topic. There are separate research areas that are responsible for empirical recording and modeling and others that then apply them. In addition to general market research, the areas of psychology, sociology and anthropology play a major role. Market psychology is a bit more specialized; According to F. Salcher, it is the applied science "the analysis that goes beyond the pure description of behavior to the explanation of causes and the disclosure of only partially conscious wishes, ideas and needs" ...
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class consciousness
is a class's specific conception of its basic interests and role in society, as well as its material conditions of existence. Following on from a formulation by Karl Marx, a distinction was often made in the reception of his work between the "class in itself" and the "class for itself", and this concept was linked to Hegel's thinking. A class given “in itself” by its position in the given relations of production can only become a class that acts politically “for itself” if it learns, fights and gathers experience together. Friedrich Engels defined the term "class conscious" as an individual's awareness of his own class position...
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