On a recent rainy Saturday afternoon, I picked up the communist manifesto off the floor near my bookcase in a state of contemplation. What else to do on a Saturday afternoon than this. Whilst contemplating mostly relationships, Friends and lovers, past, present and future, I felt myself ask if this 120 page political ramble could somehow solve all my problems. The conclusion I came to was a solid no, but nevertheless it made me think about politics and relationships, and of course the politics of relationships.

Appearing to be be a novella from a distance, the manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is short but not necessarily sweet, as in the case with most relationships of mine. Flipping through the pages, I tried to remember where and when I had read it. It must of been high school. It was.... Alas I remember, It was not assigned, I remember I was trying to look smart by reading the communist manifesto in commons (Study Hall). My guess it that it mostly probably just made me look like a jack ass.

Jackass or not, after recently seeing Inception, I question this... If the most powerful Idea is indeed a virus, Was this manifesto simply a new idea that spread like a virus after it's birth or was it just part of a virus to begin with? Was communism, a tale as old as time, a reflection of innate human feeling, or was it a new idea?

Communism relates to nearly every relationship I have ever been in. To me, communism in an ideal world would consist of partnerships stretching around the world in geometric shapes that just grow and grow in a kaleidoscope of equal shapes. This unfalterable idea of equality and balance in theory it is not quite likely to take the world by storm. However, equality in a sense seems to be borderline innate. Not always on grand political and classical scale but in some senses it is and has always and will always be present.

The idea of a partnership has existed in most relationships from the beginning of time. Men hunted, women cooked, Hunters, Gathers, we each had roles. However, Social orders have inevitably distorted levels of equality and made us question what indeed equality actually means. Nevertheless, in a sense, it has still existed since the beginning. Isn't that what Marx is striving for to begin with... is it possible he was just trying show us ourselves in a manner of speaking? The capability we have to all stand on level ground. Spirals and circles are around us everywhere, why not frame our society and thus our relationships based on this equality. Marx did say this after all "we have nothing to lose but our chains."

Both in society and in relationships I guess we have to know that there are chains there to begin with.

Equality can not be a facade for long, therefore it makes the necessity of it's enforcement comprehensible. Did the ideas of the manifesto inspire people or would they simply have recognized their chains and flocked together based on their breadth of commonalities. Is it inevitable that something sometime would have been written or a declaration made if indeed a philosophy like communism and the idea of equality are embedded within humans or would we have simply flocked towards these philosophies when the social order hit rock bottom or in a personal case.. when a relationship hit rock bottom.


Colonialism, neo-colonialism, domination, submission, break down, build-up and so on and so forth. Let's face it it exists even if we don't admit it. Someone gets their way more than the other, and someone always allows it. I know this because I have been on both sides and know full well why relationships that don't follow a manifesto don't work. Sometimes it really does just come down to a relationship's execution rather than compatibility. Hell most of us probably know this. There seems to always be a dominant and they generally know who they are. In politics and in relationships we always play the familiar roles until something or someone hits bottom and it either ends or balance and equality are built into the frame with which the relationship is rebuilt. I guess like traditional social orders and relationships should stay as far away from this system as possible. This system is only another chain for us to break free from.

Just thinking on a Saturday,

wishes,
-Stitches