No Need For Any Kind Of Charity

The magnificent response to the Humboldt bus crash underscores just how wonderful people can be when a disaster happens. Donations have come from 65 countries, ranging from $5 to $50,000. At the time of writing the total is $11 million with no end in sight, and behind them, all is the one common sentiment: ''Anything to help.'' 

As great as all this is we should not lose sight of the fact that we live under capitalism, which may well, at least partially screw things up. Some form of administration will need to process the distribution of the funds and administration costs. A perfect example being the Aberfan disaster of 1966, in which very little was received by the survivors and relatives. 

In a socialist society, there would be no need of any kind of charity, therefore no risk that the needy would be denied anything.

Serving capital, Ms Browne, not you . .
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For socialism, 

Steve, Mehmet, John & all contributing members of the SPC.