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Whit Wirsing: How Fox News allows the rich to pick your pockets

My friend who watches Fox News exclusively was bemoaning the movement to abolish Thanksgiving. (I have a confession to make: I am lover of Thanksgiving and Christmas, as well as a devout Obama Democrat.)

It brought back a memory of my undergraduate days at Virginia Tech more than half a century ago where, as a philosophy major, I took a course in Marxism. It was taught by Guy Hammond, who had doctorates in engineering and philosophy and was an ordained minister, Methodist, as I recall. He taught the course in Marxism cold turkey, without personal bias.

A Marxist concept that Hammond explained was that of “false consciousness.