A justification of basic income beyond a theory of justice

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  • Giacomo Pisani Euricse

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https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1265

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Universal basic income, conflict, law, Marxism, welfare

Abstract

Most theoretical positions in support of basic income draw on a “fair society” model. Even in a post-Marxist context, basic income is conceived as a formal recognition of a social relationship, aimed at validating a liberation process that has already taken place. The present work begins from an alternative perspective. In line with a dialectical and conflicting concept of basic income, it proposes a mechanism for the reappropriation of the decision-making process, which opens up spaces for deconstruction and conflict. However, the concept must be calibrated for the conditions in which the right to a basic income is claimed; it must also take account of prevailing power relations. The paper presents a theory of a basic income as a liberation mechanism that facilitates the disarticulation of the mercantile organization of social relations and favours the possibility of autonomously deciding one’s future and the conditions of communal life.

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Giacomo Pisani, Euricse

Giacomo Pisani, Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises), Trento, Italy. Email address: giacomo.pisani@euricse.eu

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2022-01-27 — Aggiornato il 2022-08-01

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Pisani, G. (2022) «A justification of basic income beyond a theory of justice», Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 12(4), pagg. 737–761. doi: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1265.