Today I received an urgent communique from my old friend and mentor, Red Square alerting me to a dating site specifically for Socialists called 'OKcomrade'.

The creator of the service, which only exists as a Facebook page (for now) is under the mistaken impression that he's breaking new ground and as a result, has enjoyed more than his equal share of publicity.

The Guardian writes about it with excitement:

This week, OKComrade has been the highlight of my Facebook feed. The page, and its sister Twitter account, describe themselves as a dating service for "socialists, communists, and anarchists wherever they might be", and ads ranging from the jokey to the endearingly earnest have been pouring in. Jacob, a single socialist who founded the service on a whim with a few friends, has seen the idea grow from a flippant hashtag to a viral groundswell...

However, when it comes to providing material support for the movement, the People's Cube has always been and will always be in the vanguard.

I call your attention to several posts titled "The People's Dating Service" which I did for the Cube back in 2010 (May edition, July edition, November edition).

Naturally, as loyal Party members we eschew property rights, intellectual or otherwise and wish Comrade Jacob nothing but success in his endeavor, provided he doesn't succumb to the bourgeois urge to profit from it.

If he does however, I'd like to remind him that the Party will accept it's most equal fair share in the form of cash, checks or major credit cards.

Oh and I'd like to remind his clients that their CPUSA and Democrat Party membership cards are good for a 10% discount at all participating Planned Parenthood clinics.

Until OKcomrade gets it's own website, lovelorn Cubists are encouraged to visit Blur Brain and checkout a number potential mates.

If I wrote a novel about this people would say that I am lacking any connection to reality. And they would be right :D

Why this would take on a whole other aspect opening previously hidden vistas. Men, women, transgendered, polygendered, crossgendered and nongendered as well as circus clowns, farm animals or current or former dictators.
Now they have a place…..It's time, fellow travelers - it's past time.

This is definitely a "Life imitates the People's Cube" moment.

May I suggest a collection of comrade-oriented pickup lines we have developed at the Cube for the modern collectivist foreplay?

- They say I have animal attraction because I'm attracted to animals.
- Do you dance? Then go dance and let me have a word with your boyfriend.
- If you were half as pretty as I am I might continue this conversation.
- Wait till I show you my gigantic ego!
- You are so progressive that I would marry your toaster just to get into your family.
- Want to come up to my loft and play socialized medicine?

There are a lot more here -

Politically Correct Pickup Lines

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And finally, this post below from OKComrade might as well have appeared on our Dating Service thread. Talk about life imitating the People's Cube!

Randy Newkirk‎ > OKComrade
21 year old straight cis male. I'm a nonsectarian anarchist who finds particular affinities with individualist, nihilist, existentialist, postmodern, queer, feminist, post-left and insurrectionary strains of thought. Some of my favorite thinkers include Bakunin, Stirner, Nietzsche, Emma Goldman, Wolfi Landstreicher, and the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective. Hobbies include reading, walking, playing music, and decadently consuming french press coffee and microbrews. Living in Durango, Colorado right now, but I'll be in the Denver area by the end of the summer. I love both cis and trans* women, feminists in particular, and despise TERFs & rigid ideologues. Looking for a passionately open-minded, free-spirited radical partner and equally open-minded free spirited friends & comrades.

He reminds me of dear old mom.

Red Square wrote:
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And finally, this post below from OKComrade might as well have appeared on our Dating Service thread. Talk about life imitating the People's Cube!

Randy Newkirk‎ > OKComrade
[highlight=#FFFF99]21 year old straight cis male[/highlight]. I'm a nonsectarian anarchist who finds particular affinities with individualist, nihilist, existentialist, postmodern, queer, feminist, post-left and insurrectionary strains of thought. Some of my favorite thinkers include Bakunin, Stirner, Nietzsche, Emma Goldman, Wolfi Landstreicher, and the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective. Hobbies include reading, walking, playing music, and decadently consuming french press coffee and microbrews. Living in Durango, Colorado right now, but I'll be in the Denver area by the end of the summer. I love both cis and trans* women, feminists in particular, and despise TERFs & rigid ideologues. Looking for a passionately open-minded, free-spirited radical partner and equally open-minded free spirited friends & comrades.

The free thinking "Randy" reveals himself(?) as ageist, homophobic, and sexist in a brief 6 word sentence fragment. Nicely done, Randy!

I think they may have out-Cubed The Cube™. Comrade Square of Redness, perhaps the glorious Cube™ could swap ads with them?

I love it!

"Orhan Deniz What will happen if your sausage acquires a nihilistic hew my sugarplum? Will you be able to abscond into contra-heideggerian multiplicity?"

Comrade Whoopie,

I forgot to say, "Welcome Back."

--KOOK