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'In an action few could match for guile and hypocrisy, the United Auto Workers and General Motors earlier this week announced that they were jointly donating $3 million over five years to help children exposed to lead-poisoned water in Flint, Michigan.'
'The giant automaker, which long made Flint a center of production, posted a record $11 billion in pre-tax profits in 2015. The joint donation of $600,000 a year is equal to what GM made in profits every half hour last year. It is not
known how much the UAW—which owns the largest block of GM stock, worth billions—is contributing.'
'In any case, this is an insulting amount for the city’s children, who will require lifelong health, educational and other social services to cope with irreparable damage from neurotoxins.'
'In 1845, Frederick Engels, the collaborator of Karl Marx, wrote scathingly about the charity the English ruling class doled out while brutally exploiting the working class and condemning families to cramped, fetid slums of mill towns like Manchester.'
'“What? The wealthy English fail to remember the poor? They who have founded philanthropic institutions, such as no other country can boast of! ... As though you rendered the proletarians a service in first sucking out their very life-blood and then practicing your self-complacent, Pharisaic philanthropy upon them, placing yourselves before the world as mighty benefactors of humanity when you give back to the plundered victims the hundredth part of what belongs to them!'
'“The English bourgeoisie 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 require, this I purchase with my subscription of twenty pounds to the infirmary!”'
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'In an action few could match for guile and hypocrisy, the United Auto Workers and General Motors earlier this week announced that they were jointly donating $3 million over five years to help children exposed to lead-poisoned water in Flint, Michigan.'
'The giant automaker, which long made Flint a center of production, posted a record $11 billion in pre-tax profits in 2015. The joint donation of $600,000 a year is equal to what GM made in profits every half hour last year. It is not
known how much the UAW—which owns the largest block of GM stock, worth billions—is contributing.'
'In any case, this is an insulting amount for the city’s children, who will require lifelong health, educational and other social services to cope with irreparable damage from neurotoxins.'
'In 1845, Frederick Engels, the collaborator of Karl Marx, wrote scathingly about the charity the English ruling class doled out while brutally exploiting the working class and condemning families to cramped, fetid slums of mill towns like Manchester.'
'“What? The wealthy English fail to remember the poor? They who have founded philanthropic institutions, such as no other country can boast of! ... As though you rendered the proletarians a service in first sucking out their very life-blood and then practicing your self-complacent, Pharisaic philanthropy upon them, placing yourselves before the world as mighty benefactors of humanity when you give back to the plundered victims the hundredth part of what belongs to them!'
'“The English bourgeoisie 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 require, this I purchase with my subscription of twenty pounds to the infirmary!”'
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