Raju J DasContradictions of Capitalist Society and Culture
Dialectics of Love and Lying
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Acknowledgements
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
