Title: Charity (practice) - Wikipedia
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Charity (practice)
Contents
Etymology
Practice
Criticism
Needs-Based Versus Rights-Based Debate
Philosophies
Charity in Christianity
Tzedakah in Judaism
Zakat and Sadaqah in Islam
Dāna in Indian religions
Effective altruism
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: Engels quotes from a letter to the editor of an English newspaper who complains that
streets are haunted by swarms of beggars, who try to awaken the pity of the passers-by in a most shameless and annoying manner, by exposing their tattered clothing, sickly aspect, and disgusting wounds and deformities. I should think that when one not only pays the poor-rate, but also contributes largely to the charitable institutions, one had done enough to earn a right to be spared such disagreeable and impertinent molestations. The English bourgeoisie, Engels concludes,
is charitable out of self-interest; it gives nothing outright, but regards its gifts as a business matter, makes a bargain with the poor, saying: " If I spend this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your misery. You shall despair as before, but you shall despair unseen, this I