OK, I was planning on writing about this months ago, but I forgot, and then I was talking to a comrade about “charity” and also it is an especially relevant subject now after the earthquake in Haiti, so I figured I would actually write a post this time…

Charity is many things:

1) Cheap public relations for corporations, the rich, and imperialist governments i.e. they pay a little money to a charity, or else start a charitable organization, and then they get a lot of good articles written about them, and some people may think that they are not criminals whose entire wealth was and is illegitimately gotten, and that they should be fucking killed in the street for having this wealth, not praised for giving a little of it away. For instance, in this latest disaster we have seen grade-A hypocrites like fucking child-murder clinton, and stupid ass bono, make “appeals” for donations when they have millions of dollars in wealth which does little except: sit in the bank uselessly, or is used to buy expensive cushions for their delicate asses, or obscenely expensive food for their delicate tummies, i.e. the money is used to keep up these rich fucks’ extravagant lifestyle, which they justify, I presume, by imagining that they are more important and deserving than the majority of the people in the world. My response to these hypocrites and criminals using charity for public relations is: give up all your money, which you don’t need or deserve in the first place, and then you can talk about “charity” and doing “good.”

2) Good Business, i.e. someone starts a charitable group, they hire themselves (obviously), or appoint themselves the chairwoman/man of the board. They may also put some of their friends or relatives on the “board” or otherwise add them to the payroll. Then of course they will hire some normal employees, and then they give themselves and whoever they want large salaries, and sit on their asses collecting money for “the poor” or whatever else, while the money really just pays them a big salary, with little to no money actually going to the advertised target.

3) A drug to relieve pressure, i.e. “if we feed some of the poor, or use charity to give them just enough food to live and function somewhat normally, they will thank us and be somewhat contented, so that they won’t be mad or rebellious,” i.e. just like the use of drugs, television, sports, etc…, to distract people and let some of the pressure out of the pressure cooker which is capitalist society. Of course not saying this is all bad, I mean if charity is used to fulfil an immediate need, like helping the Haitians after the earthquake, or feeding starving people, this is obviously a very good thing. But that does not mean that it is always done with good intentions, mostly it is just done for good publicity and propaganda. But in the end, the real solution for poverty is an end to imperialism and capitalism, and the best solution for Haitians would obviously be a revolutionary government which refused to follow the dictates of the imperialists, and which aimed to create a socialist society.

4) A brutal crime, i.e. if you have ever heard about amerikkkan food aid to Africa, just one among many of such cases, you will know what I mean. The amerikkkan goverment basically does this: they buy up extra food in the domestic market (often times it is so-called “over” production, i.e the food that corporations normally destroy to keep prices high), and then ship in overseas and call this “aid.” That is where the amerikkkan food aid comes from, it is propaganda which isn’t even slightly charitable in reality, but which only fits with capitalist and imperialist policies.  This however is not the worst of it. The food aid destroys local agriculture, and has the effect of keeping the population literally starving, because the food aid is brought in, not bought in the place of need, and so with a massive influx of food, local agricultural production is kept at a pitiful level, such that it can’t even close to supply the populations food needs. It is another one of the sick ironies of capitalism that food aid doesn’t actually feed, it starves, and this is what many international organizations even admit, including the UN, which is normally so eager to kiss the ass of any amerikkkan.

In conclusion, I think it is obvious that charity is not the solution to any problem, at most it is a temporary means to keep people alive and to help people out (although often enough it has detrimental effects, as I outlined above). But charity is at base reformist, and is not a useful method AT ALL for really solving any problem, all it does is band-aid it until the next crisis comes along. That being said, we should realize that the solution is REVOLUTION, a complete end of imperialism and capitalism, and a real redistribution of wealth, and anything less than that will never create a truly equal and just society.