The Morality of Free Markets
by Charles Oliver

....Capitalist countries typically have numerous organizations through which people can donate time or money to help complete strangers.

The situation was quite different in the old Soviet Union.

"On the personal level there was a lot of charitable giving and doing for others among people's family and friends," said Richard Ebeling, an economist at Hillsdale College.

"But officially, private charity was against the law, so there were no institutions for that sort of impersonal giving that Americans often engage in," he added....