Forget the long winded debates on the relative economic and moral aspects of differing political ideologies - all you need to know can be expressed in terms of sheep ownership...

Socialism	If your neighbour has no sheep, give them one of yours
Communism	Your sheep are placed in a field with everybody else's sheep. Chicken farmers are brought in to manage the sheep under an exciting 5 year plan.
Mao-ism	As per communism, except all the chicken farmers were killed in the cultural revolution.
Fascism	The sheep are yours, until the government decide what they want to do with them.
Capitalism	Start a health scare on beef, kill the sheep, form a company to rival to McDonalds
Anarchism	Steal your neighbour's sheep to increase your own flock
Conservatism	Put your sheep up for election
Liberalism	Release the sheep. Place them on the electoral roll.
Libertarianism	You can do what you like to your sheep, provided it does not endanger anybody else's life or property.
Kennyism	Mhhh! Mmmmmhmhm mmhmhhhmhm hmhhmhmh!
Kyleism	Oh my God! They killed Kennyism!
Carmonism	Your sheep's a gay homosexual
Militarism	Shoot anybody who looks interested in your sheep
Theocracy	The wolves have discovered religion.
Hippyism	Join the sheep. Eat the grass. Contemplate God.
Feudalism	Control as many sheep as you can. Bow and scrape to those who own more sheep than you.
Dictatorship	Your sheep disappear during the night. You disappear two days later after asking where the local police got it's lamb chops at the Dictator's birthday party.
Totalitarianism	The government takes you sheep and denies that they ever existed. Wool and lamb chops are banned.
Catholism	Your guilty. The sheep are guilty. Everybody is guilty.
Isolationism	Your sheep are all you need...!
Democracy	You have two sheep. Your neighbours vote on what to do with them.
British Democracy	Same as democracy except when the public has forgotten about the sheep the government feeds them to the cows.
Pure Democracy	You have two sheep. They out vote you two to one and ban all wool and meat products.
American Democracy	Same as pure democracy, except the sheep can't be bothered to vote an have to be referred to as "hirsutically-challenged" rather than fleeced.

DJB