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How should Marxists think about charity?

A response to Rachel Cohen's latest in Vox.

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Carl Beijer
Aug 27, 2024
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Rachel Cohen, writing about volunteerism for Vox:

My coming of age in the 2010s coincided with critiques of individual action that were gaining prominence in media, politics, and academia…For real social progress, we’d need systematic policy shifts, comprehensive legislation, and political power… I’ve been thinking more about the cost of all this cynicis…

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