11-09-2012, 06:08 PM
(11-09-2012, 05:32 PM)Jester Wrote: I am as in favour of polyamorous marriages as I am gay marriages - that is to say, I want the state to get its nose out of the whole business, but if it refuses to, I have no qualms with extending mono/hetero rights to poly/homo relationships.
-Jester
Yea. The socialist argument against marriage is that it arose from private property, and that women were traditionally expected to remain loyal to their men for purposes of inheritance. Under socialism, it is thought that all relationships would become open, and the cultural stigmas of women being things like "sluts" or "cheaters" would disappear. I tend to agree. The argument against this of course, is that there is no real love involved in non-marriage or polyamorous relationships, but what is 'real love'? How do we define it? Another is that jealousy arises too easily, and it is here where this may still be a problem under socialism. Human emotions and consciousness change, but they don't go away. I personally would stick with just one person just because that is how I was raised, and I think love between two people in itself is a very complex thing!
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)