Procedure for the Celebration of Matrimony in Front of the Party (or the New State)

#PUBLICATION NOTE

This edition of Procedure for the Celebration of Matrimony in Front of the Party (or the New State) has been translated, prepared, and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the edition published on solrojo.org.

#INTRODUCTION NOTE

This is an inner-Party procedure for marriage ceremonies drafted by Comrade Gonzalo during the People's War in Peru. The document outlines the Communist concept of class love, or romantic love based on the recognition of revolutionary necessity.

#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!

#PROCEDURE FOR THE CELEBRATION OF MATRIMONY IN FRONT OF THE PARTY (OR THE NEW STATE)

#Gonzalo

#Between 1980 and '92

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We are here today to celebrate matrimony in front of the Party (or the New State). Marx taught us:

The direct, natural, and necessary relation of person to person is the romantic relation. In this natural species-relationship, humanity's relation to nature is immediately its relation to humanity, just as its relation to humanity is immediately its relation to nature — its own natural destination. In this relationship, therefore, is sensuously manifested, reduced to an observable fact, the extent to which the human essence has become nature to humanity, or to which nature to it has become the human essence of humanity. From this relationship one can therefore judge humanity's whole level of development. From the character of this relationship follows how much humanity as a species-being, as humanity, has come to be itself and to comprehend itself; the romantic relation is the most natural relation of human being to human being. It therefore reveals the extent to which humanity's natural behaviour has become human, or the extent to which the human essence in it has become a natural essence — the extent to which its human nature has come to be natural to it. This relationship also reveals the extent to which a person's need has become a human need; the extent to which, therefore, the other person as a person has become for them a need — the extent to which they in their individual being is, at the same time, a social being.¹

Mariategui wrote:

THE LIFE YOU GAVE ME

I was reborn in your 14th-century flesh like Botticelli's spring. I chose you among all, because I felt you the most diverse and the most distant. You were in my destiny. You were God's design. Like a corsair ship, without knowing it, I was looking for the most serene harbour to anchor. I was the beginning of your death; you are the beginning of my life. I had the presentiment of you in the naive painting of the 400. I began to love you before I met you, in a primitive painting. Your ancient health and grace awaited my sadness of pale and swarthy South American. Your rural Sienese maiden colours were my first feast. And your tonic possession under the Latin sky entangled in my soul a serpentine of joy.

Because of you, my bloody path has three dawns. And now that you are a little pale, without your ancient Tuscan Madonna colours, I feel that the life you lack is the life you gave me.

The romantic relation is the most direct and strictly human relation — it constitutes a social relationship. When those who enter into that relationship are Communists (or revolutionaries), that union should contribute to the struggle that they both carry out for communism (or for the revolution).

Today, as we live in the third period of modern Peruvian society, and as our people rise up in arms under the leadership of the Communist Party of Peru to transform society through the People's War from the countryside to the city, Comrades (or Colleagues) [...] and [...] have decided to wed, so that their union may serve the development of our revolution.

In the name of the Communist Party of Peru (or the New State), which represents the new society, and in front of the witnesses Comrades (or Colleagues) [...] and [...], I declare them to be married, so that they may support, help, and assist each other, and thus serve the revolution more and better.