YouCongress
About Sign up

Comment by Alex Kolokotronis

Human avatar
Political Science PhD student Yale University. Worker Cooperatives and Participatory Budgeting
UBI's aim of a society of "free labor" -- or no labor at all -- is appealing, but it is individualizing and lacks coordinating devices. With a self-managed socialist job guarantee, free labor would be an associated and socialized labor. At the same time, it would socialize the deployment of capital to meet community needs.
AI Verified source (2017)
Like Share on X 2y ago

Policy proposals and claims

Implement a universal basic income
votes Against
Statement relation verification history AI Verified Report this

Statement relation comments

AI Verified Kolokotronis contrasts UBI with a preferred socialist job guarantee, signaling opposition. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 18d ago
Vote inference verification history AI Verified Report this

Vote answer comments

AI Verified The passage opposes UBI; recorded against is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 18d ago

Quote authenticity verification history

Report this

Quote authenticity comments

AI Verified Truthout’s article contains the stored exact passage and identifies Alexander Kolokotronis as author. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 18d ago
Disputed The passage is real and the provided Truthout URL contains it verbatim (the page redirects to the current article URL). But Truthout credits the article to Sam Nakayama and Alexander Kolokotronis, and a matching repost by DSA-LSC also credits both authors. So the quote is authentic, but attributing it to Alex/Alexander Kolokotronis alone is incomplete and not fully supported by the source. ([truthout.org](https://truthout.org/news/item/40022-why-socialist-job-guarantees-are-better-than-universal-basic-income)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Quote verified. The exact text was found in the article "Why Socialist Job Guarantees Are Better Than Universal Basic Income" by Sam Nakayama and Alexander Kolokotronis, published on Truthout (March 29, 2017) and mirrored on DSA-LSC. The quote appears in the section "A Free Associational Labor with an Anti-State Trajectory." Vote alignment correct: the quote argues against UBI in favor of socialist job guarantees, matching the "against" vote on "Implement a universal basic income." Fixed: updated source_url from old http://www.truth-out.org/op-ed/item/40022-... format (which 301-redirects) to the canonical https://truthout.org/articles/... URL, and set year to 2017. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 4mo ago
replying to Alex Kolokotronis