Socialist Arguments for Basic Income

David Casassas, Daniel Raventós and Maciej Szlinder
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David Casassas: University of Barcelona
Daniel Raventós: University of Barcelona
Maciej Szlinder: Polish Basic Income Network

Chapter Chapter 23 in The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income, 2019, pp 459-476 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Casassas, Raventós and Szlinder set out from the position that the socialist tradition is heir to the main cornerstones of the old republican tradition, and they employ possible republican arguments for Basic Income to understand the socialist potential of Basic Income. They first analyse the republican social ontology—that is, the republican description of social life—and the resulting republican conceptualisation of freedom and democracy; and then they show why and how such a perspective helped and helps to shape socialist arguments and strategies for an emancipatory Basic Income for present-day societies. In the last section of the chapter they explore historical and institutional considerations about the political need and feasibility of emancipatory Basic Income schemes under contemporary circumstances.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23614-4_23

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