misinformation-effect:

post-teenager:

Charity is built upon the notion that bourgeois goodwill, alone, is enough to appease the working class. 

If someone helps you back up after pushing you down on the ground, it does not reconcile the initial injury. Charity, in that sense, fails to address the institutional realities that lead to poverty in the first place.

If your goal is to abolish the exploitation of the working class, we must abolish capitalism, period.

Oscar Wilde couldn’t have said it better…  

 “We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it. As for being discontented, a man who would not be discontented with such surroundings and such a low mode of life would be a perfect brute. Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”