Perm do both: UBIs are a Marxist strategy to decline state control Pisani 22 (“A justification of basic income beyond a theory of justice”, January 27th 2022, Pg. 744 Giacomo Pisani, https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1404/version/2330) HSLA: RP
Certain Marxist positions, driven by Antonio Negri, have recently moved in a different direction, stimulated by reflections on “cognitive capitalism”. In the context of theories of “post-workerism” (or “neo-workerism”), UBI is not primarily intended as a mechanism of distributive justice, but as a tool for the remuneration of “productive life” (Fumagalli 2017, p. 197).129
The reasoning that leads to this justification of UBI begins from a Negrian analysis of changes that took place during post-Fordism in the relationship between capital and subjectivity. This analysis is based on a particular interpretation of the Marxian idea of “real subsumption”, considered as the primary mode of enhancement of social relations in contemporary capitalism.
While this concept had been described by Marx, in the famous unpublished chapter of Capital, with reference to the socialization of the productive forces and the development of a specific mode of production connected to them, Negri interprets it in the sense of the parasitism and extractivism of capital.