This book began on June 15, 2015, in the form of a few lines I wrote to a friend. I was explaining the meaning of ‘I love/respect X’ in the context of Marx’s comment that ‘the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations’. My point was that love or anything considered inter-personal is a deeply social matter. Later on, I began thinking a little about lying – political lying – in the context of Far Right politics of hatred (anti-love) which is also a politics of what has come to be known as post-truth. Gradually, I began exploring the connection between the two aspects of capitalist culture. So basically, what began as a couple of pages on love and lying has become this book. I imagine this book as a concrete theoretical ‘application’ of the ideas laid out in my Marxist class theory for a skeptical world published in 2017. But I would have definitely not written this book, if it was not for the kind encouragement that I received from Professor David Fasenfest, the editor of Brill’s Studies in Critical Social Sciences book series. And, I certainly would not have explored the connection between love and lying without his encouragement to write the book. In many ways, this book is a gift of love for him.