Basic
Income
Guarantee

It should be known, that socialism and communism was not “invented“ by Karl Marx, but there had been thoughts before him about a more just and social society. Marx distanced himself from such ideas, and (together with Engels) called his thoughts “scientific socialism,” which were later described from the outside world with the term “Marxism.” This means the (“scientific”) analysis of the civil society and of the requirements for a socialistic development – caused during the lifetime of Marx and Engels – in the 19th century.

In the article “The market as God,” which was published in March 1999 in The Atlantic, the US-American theologian Harvey Cox compares the market with God. He recognizes: The “religion” around The Market has its own mysteries, rituals and holidays.

Dear President Barack Obama:

We urge you to consider establishing a basic income for all Americans as the most effective way to stop the contraction of the economy and begin a new era of economic prosperity for all.

People could simply help themselves to everything. Restrictions are set only by his/her ideas of morality and ethics. The use of an exchange system significantly influences these ideas.

The idea of an unconditional basic income has three historical roots. The idea of a minimum income first appeared at the beginning of the 16th century. The idea of an unconditional one-off grant first appeared at the end of the 18th century. And the two were combined for the first time to form the idea of an unconditional basic income near the middle of the 19th century.

There is not a lot that one can write about this that has not already been written.

Karl Marx is dead, Rosa Luxemburg is dead, too... However, the color of labour has remained unchanged, it has always been - red. It is a well know fact that the greatest class struggle of the 20th century took place under the red flag. Paul Lafargue, son-in-law and well known activist of Karl Marx, said: “If labour was something good and elevated, rich men would not leave it to the poor.” This was the understanding of “labour” in 19th century and this ideology was carried on to the 20th century. This ideology causes leftist trade union workers to get the feeling of failure, and at the same time it generates ideas about personal advantage. This interpretation of “labour,” at the present time, no longer applies, and those who support this archaic idea, are still to this day linked back to it. So, what is the new color of labour?

Our social consciousness lags far behind the possibilities, which are offered by the worldwide division of labour and the productive development arising from it...

There are seven to eight million illegal immigrants living in the «European Union» without a dwelling. They were not eligible for any governmental health aid and had no access to schooling. By law, they did not have the right to work, however they were able to find jobs. They were forced to work overtime, without days off, and they did not receive a salary.

If there is one proposition which currently wins the assent of nearly everybody, it is that we need more jobs. "A cure for unemployment" is promised, or earnestly sought, by every Heavy Thinker from Jimmy Carter to the Communist Party USA, from Ronald Reagan to the head of the economics department at the local university, from the Birchers to the New Left.