Friedrich Engels Memorial Day
The world lost a great one in 1895.
This is a fact that is largely ignored today. The bourgeoisie have turned King into a hero by creating an inaccurate version of him that leaves out his revolutionary anti-capaitalist beliefs.
A “lump of money” in the form of a basic income does not resolve the distributional or power inequalities between those with capital and those without.
UBI is both an important topic in its own right and a useful lens for examining recurrent virtues and vices in projects of partial decommodification and universal provision.