• Girtsquirt [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Which political tendencies support the abolition of marriage and why?

    • ap1 [any,undecided]
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      4 years ago

      Full anarcho communism would probably abandon state marriage as there would be no special benefits and there would be no state. Religious and secular marriage would just be a fun cultural ceremony which people could abandon over time if they so choose

        • ap1 [any,undecided]
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          4 years ago

          Depending on where you live there is a lot of state benefits from signing the papers.

            • ap1 [any,undecided]
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              4 years ago

              These arguments re China and Rojava are relevant because same sex couples will miss out on state benefits and protections without state recognised same sex marriage. Anybody can throw a fun ceremony - I don't think either China or Rojava bans that.

              In the case of the Zapatistas, which anarchists probably support more than Rojava, this argument is kind of moot because I'm not aware of state benefits or protections since marriage isn't really a thing their minimal/nonexistent state cares about

    • Hungover [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      What will be the influence of communist society on the family?

      It will transform the relations between the sexes into a purely private matter which concerns only the persons involved and into which society has no occasion to intervene. It can do this since it does away with private property and educates children on a communal basis, and in this way removes the two bases of traditional marriage – the dependence rooted in private property, of the women on the man, and of the children on the parents. And here is the answer to the outcry of the highly moral philistines against the “community of women”. Community of women is a condition which belongs entirely to bourgeois society and which today finds its complete expression in prostitution. But prostitution is based on private property and falls with it. Thus, communist society, instead of introducing community of women, in fact abolishes it.

      -Communist Manifesto