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Political systems explained, in reference to Cows

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors kill you and take the cows.

PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbour.

REAL SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you a glass of milk.

PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

REAL COMMUNISM: You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.

FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

TOTALITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.

SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two un-licensed farm animals in an apartment.

BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows...

CAPITALISM: You don't have any cows. The bank won't lend you any money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows. You finally acquire one, then trade it for a bull.


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