basic income reformism

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December 30, 2013 at 1:49 am #82580

alanjjohnstone
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One ex-member and now new member of Left Unity on their website has argued for the establishment of the Basic Income. It is indeed becoming an increasingly popular reform demand.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/free-money-might-be-the-best-way-to-end-poverty/2013/12/29/679c8344-5ec8-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/what-would-robin-hood-do-how-cash-handouts-are-remaking-lives-in-brazil/article16113695/?page=all

December 30, 2013 at 9:41 am #99394

ALB
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This has long been the policy of the Green Party too (another illustration that Left Unity is hunting on the same territority as them and will have to drive them out to make any headway).Here's a couple of articles analysing this proposed reform showing why it wouldn't work as expected::

http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1980s/1988/no-1009-september-1988/green-partys-basic-income-scheme-could-it-work
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2008/no-1243-march-2008/basic-income-dangerous-reform
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