Contradictions of capitalist society and culture : : dialectics of love and lying / / Raju J. Das.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; v.253
• VerfasserIn: Das, Raju J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (225 pages)

The 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 lov...

Table of Contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1 Love
• 2 Lying
• 3 Outline
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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, Extra-economic Coercion, and Special Oppression in Capitalism
• 6 Love in a Socialist Society (and in the Anti-capitalist Movement)
• 7 Conclusion
• Chapter 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 Post-truth's Philosophical Affinity with Postmodernism
• 4 Post-truth's Political Implications and Fascistic Tendencies
• 5 Conclusion
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 8 Conclusion
• 1 Brief Summary
• 2 Further Discussions
• 2.1 Explanations
• 2.2 Political Implications
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover.