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"You have two cows" refers to a form of political satire involving variations of a scenario, where what occurs to the eponymous cows is used to demonstrate how certain political systems function. ==History== Jokes of this type attracted the attention of a scholar in the USA as early as 1944. An article in ''The Modern Language Journal'' lists the following classical ones:〔George A. Henninger, "In Defense of Dictionaries and Definitions", ''The Modern Language Journal'', January 1944, vol. 28, pp.29-39〕 *''Socialism'': You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbour. *''Communism'': You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then gives you some milk. *''Fascism'': You have two cows. You give them to the government, and the government then sells you some milk. *''Capitalism'': You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. *''Nazism'': You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you. Bill Sherk mentions that such lists circulated throughout the United States since around 1936 under the title "Parable of the Isms".〔"500 Years of New Words", by Bill Sherk, Doubleday, 1983, ISBN 0-385-17902-2, p. 162.〕 A column in ''The Chicago Daily Tribune'' in 1938 attributes a version involving socialism, communism, fascism and New Dealism〔''New Dealism'': You have two cows. The government takes both, shoots one, buys milk from the other cow, then pours the milk down the drain. — Cited in: 〕 to an address by Silas Strawn to the Economic Club of Chicago on 29 November 1935. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「You have two cows」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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