Contradictions of Capitalist Society and Culture

Raju J Das, Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, is Professor at York University, Toronto. His research interests include Marxist political economy and social theory. His recent books are Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World, and Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, and Limits to the State.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and Tables1 Introduction1 Love2 Lying3 Outline2 Love and Politics: Some Existing Views1 Introduction2 What Is Love?3 Why do People Fall in Love?4 Consequences and Politics of Love5 A Critique of Existing Views on LoveAppendix: Neuroscience and Love3 Towards a Marxist Theory of Love: Trans-historical Aspects1 Introduction2 Love as a Social-emergent Effect of a Mental and Physical Connection3 Love Is More Than a Relation between Two Individuals4 Love Is a Conscious ‘Labour Process’, an Activity5 Conclusion4 Towards a Marxist Theory of Love: Love in Class Society and in Socialism1 Introduction2 Love in Pre-capitalist Class Society3 Love and Capitalist Economy3.1 Capitalist Property Relation, and Commodity Fetishism3.2 Alienation4 Love and Class Consciousness in Capitalism5 Love, and Gender and Other Forms of Oppression in Capitalism6 Love in a Socialist Society (and in the Anti-capitalist Movement)7 Conclusion5 The Post-truth Condition in Capitalist Society: Its Major Characteristics1 Introduction2 The Truth About Post-truth2.1 Post-truth on a Spectrum2.2 Lying in Post-truth Condition2.3 Facts vs Feelings in Post-truth2.4 Post-truth Relativism and Attitude to Truth2.5 Post-truth Attitude towards Experts2.6 Immorality and Demagogy of Post-truth3 Philosophy of Post-truth: Postmodernism as an Ideological Precursor4 Politics of Post-truth: Post-truth and Fascistic Tendencies5 Conclusion6 Towards a Marxist Theory of the Post-truth Condition1 Introduction2 Historical Materialism and Political Lying3 Contradictions of Capitalism3.1 Fundamental Contradictions3.2 ‘Conjunctural’ Contradictions4 Contradictions of Capitalist Imperialism5 Opposition to Regulation, and Capitalist Politics6 Capitalist Production of Lies as a Commodity7 Media of Lies as Capitalist Commodity8 Lying by the ‘Victims’ of Capitalism9 Conclusion7 Post-truth Phenomenon: a Concrete Study with a Reference to India1 Introduction2 Traits of India’s Post-truth Politics2.1 Ideological and Political Lies/Half-Truths2.2 Accumulation of Lies by Means of Suppression of Dissent2.3 Class-Blindness of Right-Wing Post-truthers3 Explaining India’s Post-truth Phenomenon3.1 Economic Misery3.2 Countering Political Action by the Masses3.3 Crisis of Bourgeois Politics3.4 Capitalism’s Fascistic Agencies4 A Critique of the Right-Wing Post-truth Politics and Thinking in India4.1 The Right-Wing’s Denigration of Dissent4.2 Culturalism and Communalism in Right-Wing Post-truth Politics5 Conclusion8 Conclusion1 Brief Summary2 Further Discussions2.1 Explanations2.2 Political ImplicationsBibliographyIndex