Universal human rights are intrinsically radical in espousing liberty, equality and fraternity for every single person. We must claim them.

The Human Rights Manifesto

Politics & Social Sciences

Wark, Julie

Philosophy

Zero Books

Charity is not a gift. Gift-giving implies reciprocity, an ongoing relationship. When requital is impossible, the act of giving remains outside mutual ties and charity becomes yet another manifestation of class structure, a sterile one-way act upholding the status quo.
Vacuuming up all the profits thanks to a weak labor movement, lower taxes, and tax havens (thanks, lobbyists and loathsome politicians!), the global elite then turn around and remake the world in their own image with charitable donations that speak more of mean-spiritedness than generosity. Postmodern versions of nineteenth-century charity aim to keep wealth and power in a few hands, mocking our desire for greater income equality.
Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark argue for an unconditional universal basic income above the poverty line and paid for by progressive taxation to both eradicate poverty and empower recipients—the result being the human right of material existence. The burning issue is not charity but justice.
Daniel Raventós is the author of Basic Income: The Material Conditions of Freedom. He is on the editorial board of the international political review Sin Permiso.
Julie Wark, the author of The Human Rights Manifesto, is on the editorial board of Sin Permiso, and lives in Barcelona.

Against Charity (Counterpunch)

Business & Money

Raventós, Daniel

Economics

AK Press

<div>Far from being merely another listing of basic human rights, this timely treatise instead puts forth the thesis that the concept of "human rights" belongs firmly in the sphere of the political economy, and that these rights have to form a part of the foundation of any society that functions properly. Decrying the fact that the web of global, economic interdependencies that makes up the current market system is governed, not by free-thinking human beings, but by unchecked and unregulated financial agents, this book is a clarion call to citizens to reclaim the very basic right of material well-being--a right from which all other human rights derive. Lejos de ser otra lista más de derechos humanos básicos, este oportuno tratado propone más bien que el concepto de "derechos humanos" pertenece sin duda a la esfera de la economía política, y que estos derechos tienen que formar parte de las cimientas de cualquier sociedad que funciona correctamente. Condenando el hecho de que el tejido global de interdependencias económicas que forman el sistema actual del mercado es gobernado, no por seres humanos autónomos, sino por agentes financieros sin regulación ni obstáculos, este libro es un toque de clarín a los ciudadanos a reclamar el derecho básico de la existencia material--un derecho del cual se derivan todos los demás derechos humanos.</div>

Manifiesto de derechos humanos (Spanish Edition)

Constitutional Law

Ediciones Barataria

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