Top ten Trotskyist chat-up lines

Posted on Saturday 16 December, 2006
Filed Under Trotskyism

 


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Now that I don’t need chat-up lines anymore, I am happy to share the secrets of past successes with younger leftie bloggers. Please note that what follows is objectively non-sexist and designed to be adapted from each according to his/her ability, to each according to his/her gender of choice.

(10) You mean you share my critique of Mandel’s interpretation of Kondratiev’s long wave theory? Wow, we have so much in common!

(9) Let’s get out of here. I know a much cozier little Marxist bookstore downtown.

(8) I bet I can guess your party cadre name.

(7) Sorry, but I just wanted to tell you how stunning you look in that secondhand donkey jacket while carrying a bundle of Socialist Workers under your arm …

(6) I used to read Trotsky … but then I drifted.

(5) Is that the Transitional Programme in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

(4) That secondhand donkey jacket of yours would look great on my bedroom floor.

(3) What’s a nice girl like you doing in a lousy union fraction like this?

(2) Do you sell papers here often?

(1) So, babe … just how degenerate would your ideal workers’ state be?

Coming soon: top ten New Labour chat-up lines …

UPDATE: Just saw a version of this one from Drink Soaked Trots … ‘Don’t suppose there’s any chance of seizing control of your means of production, love?’ Classic.

[Snogging Millies pic: hat tip III]


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56 Responses to “Top ten Trotskyist chat-up lines”

  1. mark
    on December 21st, 2006 at 21:26

    Erm, in six minutes and two posts you have shifted from telling me that I take things too seriously (possibly true) to coming out with this “ageist” cobblers. What the fuck’s that all about?

    I have just said that a 45-year-old man (with middle-age spread) danced well to hip-hop. I didn’t suggest to the owners that he be removed from the premises. Teenagers talking half-garbled ‘gangsta’ patois on the bus are just as stupid as old blokes pretending to the world authority on bleeding Jay-Z. Age is irrelevant. I’m actually 75.

    I don’t think the absence/presence of a Comments button proves anything about anything. The Weekly worker lot don’t have facility for Comments in that way but seem pretty open to stuff from outside (they printed my letter the other week at least). But I don’t know about RE, who don’t seem fuckwits, just a bit too enamoured of their own clever-Trevor words.

    Mind you, this site is quite safe with its Comments isn’t it? After all, we get you hissing away like some venomous puff adder when the hipster honour of Dave ‘Socialist Hypocrisy Group’ Osler is threatened.

  2. stroppybird
    on December 21st, 2006 at 21:50

    “Mind you, this site is quite safe with its Comments isn’t it? After all, we get you hissing away like some venomous puff adder when the hipster honour of Dave ‘Socialist Hypocrisy Group’ Osler is threatened.”

    I am not defending dave’s honour ( would have difficulty with that one :-) !

    He is capable of defending himself.

    Not sure why someone disagreeing with you means the comments are quite safe. Don’t see you being deleted or banned?

    You are free to express your view and I mine.

    And there is a difference between a letters page and comments . letters are picked. Its fairly static. Comments, as we are doing here, allows for debate and disagreement. A flow. And this site is not moderated and in earlier posts you will have seen quite a lot of criticism of Dave re the LP. So again, not ‘safe’.

    Personally I do wonder why people blog if they do not want comments and debate. That is my criticism with rotten elements. They are free to attack Dave or whoever, but don’t seem to want comments.

  3. rotten elements
    on December 22nd, 2006 at 00:59

    typing this into my allotted comments box

    Comments: (you may use HTML tags for style)

    is a comment spontaneous? i could comment -

    at least the comments have moved away from chat-up lines, but then again maybe they haven’t…

    ah-ha – the aesthetics of comments!

  4. rotten elements
    on December 22nd, 2006 at 01:31

    there’s nothing wrong with clevor trevor words

    without them we’re nothing… abrogated

    …and it ain’t not proving that me mind ain’t moving

    and I answer to the name of Trever, however

    knock me down with a feather

    Clever Trevor

    widebrows wonder wether Clever Trevor’s clever

    either have they got

    nor neither haven’t not

    got no right to make a clot

    out of Trevor

  5. Andy
    on December 26th, 2006 at 14:06

    This list first appeared on Urban75 fucking years ago

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