Charity: one of capitilism's festering ulcers

We've blogged about Jack London before and would not label him a Socialist. This does not mean however that he failed to make pertinent points in his writing. Here, as a follow up to yesterday's post, is London writing about charity:
"I had become convinced as Ernest was when he sneered at charity as the poulticing of an ulcer. Remove the ulcer was his remedy; give the worker his product; pension as soldiers those who grow honourably old in their toil, and their will be no need for charity. Convinced of this, I toiled with him at revolution, and did not exhaust my energy alleviating the social ills that continuously arose from the injustice of the system."