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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Money and Speech Under Plutocracy

Whenever the profits of plutocrats are purchased by the precarity of the people, money is always speech and speech is always moneyed. Securing a basic income guarantee would create conditions under which for the first time it would be possible for money NOT to be speech.

1 comment:

Dale Carrico said...

Recall, for example, Erik Olin Wright's point that basic income would function as a permanent strike fund for workers: BIG would facilitate criticism and assembly.