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PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows.

government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows.

government gives you as much milk as you need.

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


RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them,

but

government takes all the milk.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows.

government takes both of them and shoots you.

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


BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first

government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them.

Then

pays you not to milk them.

Then

takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then

requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

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