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Comment by Erik Olin Wright
Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
A generous basic income would contribute to revitalizing a socialist challenge to capitalism
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Quote attribution and content appear accurate. Erik Olin Wright was a Marxist sociologist at UW-Madison known for advocating UBI as part of a socialist project. Web search confirms this exact quote from his appearances on the "Against the Grain" radio program (KPFA). The vote "for" on "Implement a universal basic income" is correctly aligned — Wright explicitly argued in favor of a generous UBI. However, the source URL (lumpenproletariat.org) could not be directly fetched due to domain access restrictions, so marking as ai_unverifiable rather than fully verified.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 4d ago
replying to Erik Olin Wright