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Title: Authority Kills Love Author: Émile Pouget Date: 1898 Language: en Topics: syndicalist Source: Retrieved on 2016-10-28 from http://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/pouget/1898/authority.htm Notes: Source: L’Almanach du Père Peinard, Paris 1898; Translated: by Mitchell Abidor for marxists.org; CopyLeft: Creative Commons (Attribute & ShareAlike) marxists.org 2008.
Wherever authority shows its ugly mug it causes problems.
The family is no exception to this rule. How many parents, for wanting
to throw around their weight, have their kid’s deaths on their
conscience?
The old figure that because they’re withered, because they’ve racked up
what is called “experience,” that they’re full of wisdom and can treat
their offspring – who are approaching twenty – like they were still
sucking on a bottle.
Course, in the projects of the old the biggest place is given over to
the matter of dough – as for love that they just neglect. But for young
people it’s exactly the opposite that matters. No need to say that
they’re the ones that are right!
As soon as they learn in the house that the girl or boy is spending time
with someone who is screwing up their carefully laid plans, a life from
hell begins; Mommy brays, makes a scene, daddy storms around and flashes
his fists...it all ends in a formal order: it’s forbidden to see him or
her!
What happens then? Usually the lover doesn’t give a damn about the
familial prohibition and goes necking anyway...these ones understand
life: they love each other and prove it to each other. They’re doing the
right thing!
If later love cools off well, then they each go their own way: hello...
goodbye... They’ll still have had the good fortune of having profited by
the occasion.
Isn’t this better than selling yourself for money – in keeping with the
fashion of modern marriage?
Shit, yes! Modern marriage is filthy – especially among the rich. They
talk about cash as soon as it’s a question of coupling a male and a
female. As for the sympathies or antipathies the boy and girl feels
towards each other – who cares a rat’s ass?
From this come some pretty unions.
In order for love to be a good and beautiful thing it shouldn’t be mixed
up with anything else – and it should blow where it wills.
And this is what will be when anarchist society will have arrived. We’ll
never see another drame passionel.
Anyway, it’s not these drama that will be generated in a world without
laws, nor cops, not lawyers, since it’s already the case that judgers
have taken up the habit of not condemning – or condemning to very little
– those who commit them.
But that just shows that when the Social will arrive even these hitches
will disappear.
These dramas are of two kinds: unrequited love and jealousy.
There are Ostrogoths who go crazy because the object of their flame
doesn’t give a shit.
As if everyone wasn’t free to love whoever they wanted!
“You want me but I don’t want you. Too bad for you, but you better get
used to it.”
Things shouldn’t go any further than this, and they wouldn’t if we
practiced freedom even a little bit.
As for jealous maniacs, their case is even simpler.
Really, why does a man whose better half put horns on him get carried
away?
It’s mainly because, plunged into a society where everything is
someone’s property he considers his wife as his property. Like a utensil
belonging to him alone.
If someone lays a finger on her it that rubs against his feeling as an
owner; he grinds his teeth and sees red...
Well then, everything can be summed up by saying that some have to learn
the meaning of liberty and others have to be cleansed of the mania for
ownership. It’s not all that tough.
Then and only then will we be rid of the ridiculous scenes of murderous
lovers and tragic cuckolds.