Open AccessA justification of basic income beyond a theory of justice
Author(s) -
Giacomo Pisani
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
oñati socio-legal series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2079-5971
DOI - 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1265
Subject(s) - basic income , marxist philosophy , dialectic , sociology , economic justice , context (archaeology) , deconstruction (building) , mechanism (biology) , positive economics , law and economics , epistemology , neoclassical economics , economic system , economics , political science , law , politics , philosophy , paleontology , ecology , biology
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.