Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau
Visiting Scholar
Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau is Outreach and Partnerships Coordinator for the Global Movements Program of Why Hunger?
Participating Years
2016–2017
Consciousness and Revolution
The place of consciousness in radical theory and practice is a subject of significant dispute. Marx believed that much of what we construe as consciousness is “false,” a rationalization or an ideological reflex that stands between people and the “true material needs” of their life processes. Are consciousness and revolution mediated in the same ways today?