Here's my favorite political joke. Supposedly it originates from Egypt:

It's election day, and there are two candidates, Hosni and Bob. Jim the voter doesn't like Hosni, so he goes to the polling place and casts a ballot for Bob. He goes home, and his wife asks him how he voted. "I voted for Bob", he says. The wife becomes pale with fear and becomes hysterical. "You can't do that! The secret police are going to find out about it and they're going to take you away! They'll torture you to death in a secret prison! You have to go back and change your vote!". Jim goes back to the polling place, and nervously tells the election inspector he made a mistake earlier and wants a new ballot. The election inspector looks at Jim sternly and says "Yes... we know all about your 'mistake'". Hearing this, Jim gets very nervous. Visions of torture implements dance in his head. Then the inspector says "But don't worry about it. We fixed it for you."

I didn't come up with one myself:

This little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?
"Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way:
I'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me Capitalism.
Your Mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the Government. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the People. The nanny [babysitter], we'll consider her the Working Class. And your baby brother, we'll call him the Future.
Now, think about that and see if that makes sense." So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.
Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So the little boy goes to his parents' room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room.
Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.
The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now." The father says, "Good son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about."
The little boy replies, "Well, while Capitalism is screwing the Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are being ignored and the future is in deep shit."

^That was illustrated in one of the episodes of the SC "Little Billy."

For an anti-capitalist joke, that was pretty good.

largeham + 1

That was funny.

A man walks into a voting booth. While inside he is visited by three ghosts representing the candidtes. The democrat said, "ill take care of you." The republican said, "ill keep this country safe.", ralph nader said, "screw you I'm here for the polar bears"

"What do you call a draft-dodging, pot-smoking, communist pussy?"

I'd call them Canadian

"What do you call a draft-dodging, pot-smoking, communist pussy?"

draft dodging etc - isn't that something that happened way back in the vietnam war ? how many of you guys are old enough to remember what that meant to us at the time?? and wasn't part of the reason that the US lost that war the result of the fact that many of the conscripts were still pot smokers? or was that just in the films??

but hey - what do I know - I'm an aging british socialist living in France!

An empty taxi pulled up to 10 Downing street and Clement Attlee got out.

Clement Attle is relieving himself in the gents at the house of commons, when the door swings open, and Winston Churchill enters. He purposefully strides to the farthest end.

"Feeling a bit stand-offish today, are we Winston?" asks the PM

"No," says Churchill, majestically unbuttoning his fly, "it's just that whenever you see anything big, Clement, you nationalise it."

It was quite difficult to get a car in communist Russia, and when you did, there was a 10 year wait.

I man had managed to be approved to buy a car, so he went to order one. When he was finished, he was told, "come back in ten years' time, and you can pick up your car."

"Morning or afternoon?" he asked.

"What does it matter- its in ten years time anyway"

"Well, it's just that the plummer is coming in the morning."

The US did not lose in Vietnam because of pot. Saying it lost isn't even correct either, it just got tired of directly fighting a war halfway around the world. Go figure.

"What do you call a draft dodging, pot-smoking, communist pussy?"
A college professor.

Fidel Castro is delivering a speech in Havana, when a voice in the crowd goes, "peanuts, popcorn, cracker jack". Castro continues his speech without paying attention, but a short time later the voice says, "peanuts, popcorn, cracker jack". This happens a few times before Castro finally pauses in his regular speech and says, "The next time he says that, I'm going to find out who it is and kick him all the way to Miami." Then everyone in the crowd goes, "Peanuts, popcorn, cracker jack"

A joke from communist Russia: "So long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work."

A man arranges to meet an agent from the KGB, and says, "I've lost my parrot." The agent replies, saying, "Why are you telling me that?" Well, the man says, "Well, I just want you to know that I don't agree with anything my parrot has to say."

A family living in Moscow are having dinner, when there is a firm knock on the door. All the adults' faces go pale in horror, and nobody moves for the door. The knock comes again, firmer, and again, firmer still. Eventually, the father rises from the table and goes to open the door.

When he returns, colour has returned to his face, and he says, "Don't worry, the house is on fire."

The year is 1950. A man goes to the Kremlin and asks the guard, "Can I talk to Lenin?"

"No, comrade, Lenin is dead." says the guard turning him away.

The next day, he returns, and asks, "Can I see Lenin?" Again, the guard turns him away.

On the third day, the guard asks him, "Comrade, why do you keep on asking? I've told you, Lenin is dead!"

"I know, I just like to hear it!"

Three men sit in jail in the KGB headquarters. The first asks the second why he has been imprisoned, and he says, "Because I criticized Karl Radek." The first man responds, "But I am here because I spoke out in favour of Radek!" They turn to the third man who has been sitting quietly in the back, and ask him why he is in jail too. He responds, "I'm Karl Radek

Q: Is it true that there is freedom of speech in the Soviet Union the same as there is in the USA?
A: In principle, yes. In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Reagan!", and you will not be punished. Just the same, you can stand in the Red Square in Moscow and yell, "Down with Reagan!", and you will not be punished.

An artist is commissioned to create a painting celebrating Soviet-Polish friendship, to be called "Lenin in Poland." When the painting is unveiled at the Kremlin, there is a gasp from the invited guests; the painting depicts Nadeshda Krupskaya (Lenin's wife) naked in bed with Trotsky. One guest asks, "But this is a travesty! Where is Lenin?" To which the painter replies, "Lenin's in Poland."

Vietnam was a quagmire. We got sick of fighting a losing war halfway around the world. In December 1972, Nixon called Strategic Air Command and told them to end the war. The result was Operation Linebacker II. What better way to end the war than carpet-bomb Hanoi for two weeks nonstop? We were out of there by '73. In '75, the North went South, and Ford lost his balls. The end.

Very funny TGM.

Republican joke: you have two cows and your neighbor has none. You say "So what?"

Democratic joke: you have two cows and your neighbor has none; however, you feel guilty, so you vote for Obama.

Socialist joke: you have two cows and your neighbor has none. The government takes one cow, gives it to your neighbor, and the two of you share the milk.

Communist joke: you have two cows and your neighbor has none. The government takes both cows, slaughters one, and makes you two stand in line for milk rations.

http://www.cyberclass.net/ref2cows.htm

There's a full list of cow/political jokes. I die laughing every single time I read them.

Those cow jokes are a classic. Cambodian Communism, Totalitarianism, and Surrealism made me laugh

Ghost +1

Most of those jokes are from Russia itself. They've got an amazing sense of humour:

A memo in a student dining hall: "Students, do not drop your food on the floor, two cats have already been poisoned!".

A lecturer visits the mental hospital and gives a lecture about how great communism is. Everybody claps loudly except for one person who keeps quiet. The lecturer asks: "Why aren't you clapping?" and the person replies "I'm not a psycho, I work here."

A man walks into a shop and asks, "Don't you have any fish?", and the shop assistant replies, "You got it wrong - ours is a butcher: we don't have any meat. They don't have any fish in the fishmonger's across the road!"

Ghost +1 - very subtle (butcher and fishmonger). I like it.