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Book SynopsisThe world experiences rampant ideological/political lying and absence of genuine love. Capitalism utilizes lies to hide its contradictions causing people’s suffering which undermines genuine love. The right-wing capitalist politics is a politics of hatred, justified by lies. The analysis of love and lying, as aspects of capitalist culture, has important practical implications for the struggle for socialism.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction 1 Love 2 Lying 3 Outline 2 Love and Politics: Some Existing Views 1 Introduction 2 What Is Love? 3 Why do People Fall in Love? 4 Consequences and Politics of Love 5 A Critique of Existing Views on Love Appendix: Neuroscience and Love 3 Towards a Marxist Theory of Love: Trans-historical Aspects 1 Introduction 2 Love as a Social-emergent Effect of a Mental and Physical Connection 3 Love Is More Than a Relation between Two Individuals 4 Love Is a Conscious ‘Labour Process’, an Activity 5 Conclusion 4 Towards a Marxist Theory of Love: Love in Class Society and in Socialism 1 Introduction 2 Love in Pre-capitalist Class Society 3 Love and Capitalist Economy 3.1 Capitalist Property Relation, and Commodity Fetishism 3.2 Alienation 4 Love and Class Consciousness in Capitalism 5 Love, and Gender and Other Forms of Oppression in Capitalism 6 Love in a Socialist Society (and in the Anti-capitalist Movement) 7 Conclusion 5 The Post-truth Condition in Capitalist Society: Its Major Characteristics 1 Introduction 2 The Truth About Post-truth 2.1 Post-truth on a Spectrum 2.2 Lying in Post-truth Condition 2.3 Facts vs Feelings in Post-truth 2.4 Post-truth Relativism and Attitude to Truth 2.5 Post-truth Attitude towards Experts 2.6 Immorality and Demagogy of Post-truth 3 Philosophy of Post-truth: Postmodernism as an Ideological Precursor 4 Politics of Post-truth: Post-truth and Fascistic Tendencies 5 Conclusion 6 Towards a Marxist Theory of the Post-truth Condition 1 Introduction 2 Historical Materialism and Political Lying 3 Contradictions of Capitalism 3.1 Fundamental Contradictions 3.2 ‘Conjunctural’ Contradictions 4 Contradictions of Capitalist Imperialism 5 Opposition to Regulation, and Capitalist Politics 6 Capitalist Production of Lies as a Commodity 7 Media of Lies as Capitalist Commodity 8 Lying by the ‘Victims’ of Capitalism 9 Conclusion 7 Post-truth Phenomenon: a Concrete Study with a Reference to India 1 Introduction 2 Traits of India’s Post-truth Politics 2.1 Ideological and Political Lies/Half-Truths 2.2 Accumulation of Lies by Means of Suppression of Dissent 2.3 Class-Blindness of Right-Wing Post-truthers 3 Explaining India’s Post-truth Phenomenon 3.1 Economic Misery 3.2 Countering Political Action by the Masses 3.3 Crisis of Bourgeois Politics 3.4 Capitalism’s Fascistic Agencies 4 A Critique of the Right-Wing Post-truth Politics and Thinking in India 4.1 The Right-Wing’s Denigration of Dissent 4.2 Culturalism and Communalism in Right-Wing Post-truth Politics 5 Conclusion 8 Conclusion 1 Brief Summary 2 Further Discussions 2.1 Explanations 2.2 Political Implications Bibliography Index
