Contradictions of Socialism (I saw the future & ran away)

By Red Square

There was a time in recent American history when certain Soviet jokes didn't work in translation - not so much because of the language differences, but because of the lack of common sociopolitical context. But that is changing. As President Obama is preparing us for a great leap towards collectivism, I find myself recollecting forgotten political jokes I shared with comrades while living in the old country under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Gorbachev. (I was too young to remember the Khrushchev times, but I remember the Khrushchev jokes.) I also noticed that the further America "advances" back to the Soviet model, the more translatable the old Soviet jokes become. ~

Not all Soviet advancements have metastasized here yet, but we have four more glorious years to make it happen.

One of my favorite political jokes is this:

The six dialectical contradictions of socialism in the USSR:

• There is full employment - yet no one is working.
• No one is working - yet the factory quotas are fulfilled.
• The factory quotas are fulfilled - yet the stores have nothing to sell.
• The stores have nothing to sell - yet people got all the stuff at home.
• People got all the stuff at home - yet everyone is complaining.
• Everyone is complaining - yet the voting is always unanimous.

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