Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Light bulb joke (Chinese commies)

The picture below and its caption bring to mind a joke told to me by a former member of the Socialist Worker Party here in England. We can adapt it to the current topic.

How many vanguard fighters of the Chinese working class with communist consciousness does it take to change a light bulb?

Change? You capitalistic roader and enemy of the four modernisations! You must SMASH the light bulb and BUILD a new one.
"We'll destroy old world and build new."
(Commie smashes crucifix, buddha and classical chinese texts)

4 comments:

edmund said...

Q: How many Chinese Red Guards does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 10,000 - to give the bulb a cultural revolution.

Sorry, sorry...

Paul, South midlands said...

At one point in the cultural revolution they smahed up traffic lights because RED meant STOP which was deemed counter revolutionary........

Paulinus said...

Q: How many Chinese Red Guards does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A. None! In the New Dawn of the Socialist Revolution, there will be no need for artificial light, comrade! (and if you keep up with these capitalist running dog demands for light bulbs, you'll be sent for some "re-education")

[The more I look at that sentence, the more it looks like it could emerge from our own government.]

Fr Tim Finigan said...

Paul - that's priceless! In Wild Swans, Jung Chang tells how horticulture was considered bourgeois so the children at her school had to go out and pull up all the blades of grass to make the place more in keeping with the revolution.