NOW YOU KNOW
THE VARIOUS ISMS'
Here arc some amusing definitions of various social experiments that 1 came across recently, I thought them good enough to pass on. writes a correspondent. Socialism: You haye 2 cows, you give one. to your neighbour. Communism: You have 2 cows, you give bo-th to the Government, the Government gives you the milk. New Idealism: You have 2 cows, the. Government, shoots one,, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Capitalism: You have 2 cow.s, you sell one and, buy a bull. Fascism: Yoii have 2 cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the 'Government, the. Government sells part ol' the milk back In you. Naziism: You have 2 cows, the Government shoots you and takes both cows. There's a .smile in those, deiinitipns—and perhaps a grain of truth as_ well.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 97, 10 August 1943, Page 6
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143NOW YOU KNOW Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 97, 10 August 1943, Page 6
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