Unconditional Freedom

David Casassas is Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona, where he teaches social and political theory. He was the Secretary of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) and he is now a member of its International Advisory Board. He has widely published on republicanism, socialism and basic income and is the author of the highly praised Spanish book The City in Flames: The validity of Adam Smith’s commercial republicanism. Julie Wark is a translator and human rights activist. She is correspondent for Europe for CounterPunch and author of The Human Rights Manifesto and Against Charity (with Daniel Raventós).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Cap and Life



Part One: Cartographies Of Social (Dis)Order: Why Something Like a Basic Income?

1. Psychosociology and Politics of Elitist Verticalism

2. The Fallacy of Autogenous Social Orders

3. The Liberal-Organicist Synthesis

4. Resisting Tutelage: Fraternity for the Civilising of a Conflictive World



Part Two: Holding the Gaze: Republicanism and Democracy

5. Socioeconomic Independence and Worlds in Common

6. Bargaining Power: Exit Options for Entry Doors and the Emancipatory Potential of Basic Income

7. Universalisation of Citizenship and Universalisation of Property

8. Unconditional Freedom: Basic Income as Predistribution



Part Three: Flexible, Multi-Active Lives: The Dimensions of Social Power

9. Basic Income and Democratisation of Work

10. Why Do We Want Bargaining Power?

11. Our Flexibility Is Our Freedom



Part Four: The Dream Is Over: Post-Neoliberalism (or Why a Basic Income Now And How)

12. “Wanting Everything Back”: Basic Income in Contemporary Social Movements

13. Societies of the Market or Societies with Markets?

14. Grappling with Customs in Common: A People’s Political Economy?

15. Leaving the Proletariat and Becoming Free Workers



Epilogue: Unconditional Freedom at the Frontiers of Capitalism



Bibliography



Index