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To: Father Terrence who wrote (67637)	12/20/1999 10:19:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

But as Karl pointed out, once the Proletariat has seized power and succeeded in imposing socialism (state ownership of the means of production) the state will wither away, and everyone (who's left) will live in easy circumstances enjoying arts and crafts and bull bellies in the stage of communism.

To: Father Terrence who wrote (67637)	12/20/1999 11:33:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Some basic definitions..... > >FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. > >FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take >care of them, and sells you the milk. > >PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of >them, and you all share the milk. > >APPLIED COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but >the government takes all the milk. > >DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots >you. > >NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government takes both and >shoots you and sends the cows to a safe deposit box in Zurich. > >SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines you for >keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an HDB apartment. > >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. > >AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows if you >vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached for speculating >in cow >futures. The press dubs the affair "Cowgate". The cow sues you for breach of >contract. > >BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheep's brains and >they go mad. The government doesn't do anything. > >EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY: 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 have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. > >HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your >publicly-listed company, using letters of credit opened by your >brother-in-law at the >bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with associated general offer so that >you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The >milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a >Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells >the right to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual >report says that the company owns eight cows, >with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because of bad >feng shui. **************** ----------------------