The Soviet Union had more of the opposite idea: you must work to earn a living. From the 1936 Soviet constitution,<p>&gt; In the USSR work is a duty and a matter of honor for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: &quot;He who does not work, neither shall he eat.&quot;<p>If you want to analogize it to a left-wing movement, an unconditional UBI is closer to a the Scandinavian social democrats&#x27; ideas of a universalist welfare system.