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it’s famous political analogy…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows

 

An article in The Modern Language Journallists the following classical ones:[1]

  • Socialism: If you have two cows. The government takes one and gives one to your neighbor.
  • Communism: If you have two cows. The government takes them both and promises you milk but you starve.
  • Fascism: If you have two cows. The government takes them and sells you the milk.
  • New Dealism: If you have two cows, you shoot one and milk the other; then you pour the milk down the drain.
  • Nazism: If you have two cows, the Government shoots you and keeps the cows.
  • Capitalism: If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull.

Bill Sherk mentions that such lists circulated throughout the United States since around 1936 under the title "Parable of the Isms".[2] A column in The Chicago Daily Tribune in 1938 attributes a version involving socialism, communism, fascism and New Dealism[nb 1] to an address by Silas Strawn to the Economic Club of Chicago on 29 November 1935.[3]

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