Issue #03, June 2024
Left. Right. Top. Bottom. Rearranging the Political Coordinate System
This issue aims to shed light on the conceptual darkness surrounding the idea of a political spectrum ranging from left to right. To this end, system-relevant aspects of the existing order and its transformation are to be placed in relation to the historical development of the various political systems of order and organizational principles (socialism, communism, capitalism, neoliberalism, anarchism), and their interrelationships are to be clarified.
Introduction to the third issue
Dennis Kaltwasser , Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Kritische Gesellschaftsforschung, Issue #03, June 2024, Pages XX-XX
Permanent Link: https://cdoi.org/1.2/066/000058
Between Emancipation and Social Control: The Equivocal Potential of Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Jan Schulz-Weiling
Kritische Gesellschaftsforschung, Issue #03, June 2024, Pages XX-XX
Permanent Link: https://cdoi.org/1.2/066/000048
Universal Basic Income (UBI) has the potential to be an emancipatory force for good by alleviating poverty and hardship, abolishing ethically questionable means-testing, restoring effective bargaining power to the non-property- owning classes and enabling human beings to develop more fully their true potential by providing them with more real freedom. Or, if designed badly, it could end up as a token handout for a technology-displaced permanent underclass that is shunned from employment opportunities and effective political participation in a neo-feudal system. Further consolidating global inequality by pacifying the (potentially) revolutionary masses, keeping them from pursuing social justice. The paper highlights pitfalls and gives recommendations that are meant to forestall ongoing attempts to water down essential characteristics of UBI and avoid public misapprehension. Furthermore, the potential for social control inherent to welfare politics is highlighted and possible implications for basic income are outlined. Finally, the paper points out a possible goal conflict between civil society proponents of Basic Income and billionaire supporters. UBI has, astonishingly, a long history of receiving support from both traditional political camps – the Left and the Right. Leading to the question what kind of vision would prevail, in times when the lines delineating the political landscape have become blurred? Keywords: UBI, Emancipation, Social Control, Inequality, Democracy
 
Kritische Gesellschaftsforschung
Issue #03, June 2024
ISSN: 2751-8922
In this Issue:
Dennis Kaltwasser
Introduction to the third issue
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Jan Schulz-Weiling
Between Emancipation and Social Control: The Equivocal Potential of Universal Basic Income (UBI)
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