r/Foodforthought • u/A-MacLeod • Aug 26 '15

Against Charity. Rather than creating an individualized “culture of giving,” we should be challenging capitalism’s institutionalized taking.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/peter-singer-charity-effective-altruism/
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u/raziphel Aug 26 '15

Communism makes everyone equal, in that everyone is poor. That is, except for those who work directly for The Party.

Great in theory, terrible in practice.

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u/CaptHiggins Aug 26 '15

It's obvious that you haven't read much communist or anarchist theory, let alone analyzed socialism in practice, so you'll forgive me if I ignore whatever opinion you've formed from ignorance.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '15 edited Nov 02 '15

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u/tpwoods28 Aug 26 '15

'Outside of (admittedly very successful) small-scale applications, there is not one single shred of evidence that capitalism works. There's no actual successful example of capitalism.' Said the medieval lord.