{"id":14625,"date":"2011-09-26T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=14625"},"modified":"2011-09-21T13:57:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T12:57:50","slug":"socialism-communism%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/09\/socialism-communism%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialism, Communism\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is Socialism? It is the dialectical synthesis of various stages in human development. From antiquity, it takes slavery; from feudalism, it takes serfdom; from capitalism, it takes exploitation; and from socialism, it takes the name.<\/p>\n<p>At a political meeting the chairman asks the audience, &#8220;Who is Gomulka?&#8221; There is silence. He says, &#8220;You see, if you attended more party meetings, you would know.&#8221; A voice from the back asks, &#8220;Do you know who is Petrovic?&#8221; The chairman says he cannot seem to remember.&#8221; The man explains to him, &#8220;If you attended fewer party meetings, you would know that Petrovic is sleeping with your wife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A policeman asks someone on the street,<br \/>\n&#8220;What is your opinion about the latest party resolution?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The same as yours.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Then I must arrest you!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a political meeting the chairman asks the audience, &#8220;Who is Gomulka?&#8221;  There is silence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}