‘The Left will find that it has bought a Trojan Horse’: The dialectics of universal basic income

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL ISSUES

Critical Social Policy Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI:10.1177/02610183221092151

David James Hogg

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Abstract

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in basic income proposals. While this is not an entirely new phenomenon, what is different about the current discourse is the Left’s wholehearted embrace of what has traditionally been seen as a conservative social policy in Britain. It is my contention that UBI is potentially a dangerous policy for the Left, in that it risks undermining the – admittedly imperfect – welfare protections already in existence. This paper draws on Marxist political economy in order to demonstrate how the emancipatory potential of UBI has been somewhat overstated by some of its Leftist supporters, while a discussion of the neutrality of the State is important in considering how this ‘shape-shifting social policy' is likely to be implemented in practice.

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“左派会发现他们买了一个特洛伊木马”:全民基本收入的辩证法

近年来，人们对基本收入提案的兴趣激增。虽然这并不是一个全新的现象，但当前言论的不同之处在于，左派全心全意地接受了英国传统上被视为保守的社会政策。我的观点是，对于左派来说，全民基本收入可能是一项危险的政策，因为它有可能破坏已经存在的——诚然是不完美的——福利保护。本文借鉴了马克思主义政治经济学，以证明UBI的解放潜力如何被一些左翼支持者夸大了，而讨论国家的中立性对于考虑这种“改变形态的社会政策”如何在实践中实施是很重要的。

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期刊介绍： Critical Social Policy provides a forum for advocacy, analysis and debate on social policy issues. We publish critical perspectives which: ·acknowledge and reflect upon differences in political, economic, social and cultural power and upon the diversity of cultures and movements shaping social policy; ·re-think conventional approaches to securing rights, meeting needs and challenging inequalities and injustices; ·include perspectives, analyses and concerns of people and groups whose voices are unheard or underrepresented in policy-making; ·reflect lived experiences of users of existing benefits and services;