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.

"We had many political conversations with people, in many different places, and they all said good things about their government" says a tourist to Cuba.

It's hard to imagine that there was once a time when people who wanted to date other people but who insisted that those other people not deviate, even minutely, from a rigid political worldview had little recourse but to pass out hand-written pamphlets outside the supermarket.

The general view was that dating someone with different political opinions would just lead to arguments.

It's a Facebook page that offers a place for those who find OKCupid to be "too bourgeois" to post profiles. Like Matt,a "27 year old, anarchist, environmentalist, vegan, straightedge, male from upstate new york." Or suzical, a "22 yo cis female anarcho communist." To be clear, it's hard to tell whether or not OKComrade is a joke.

The daters seem to be taking it seriously (or, at least, some do).

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.