come at or just below the level of subsistence, so people are forced to low wage work, another bounty for the employers. The capitalists and their states need us (working class) to be impoverished, indebted and UBI will also be framed within the logic of capitalism which will permit a reform which fits in the agenda of the employing class. It will definitely fail to satisfy the unfounded hopes and expectations of our fellow workers and if it can be done under the disguise of so called ‘socialism’ then the subsequent disillusionment and disappointment will not be with capitalism and owning class but with the term socialism and those recognized to be “socialist”.
The proposed UBI will make no good to the working class and is perfectly compatible with alienation and oppression of the working class.
So the only scientific way is abolition of wage slavery, production for social needs and a world of free access to all social wealth created by the working class.
Partha Pratik Mukherjee is a pediatric surgeon by profession and social activist.