&gt; &quot;Marxism has been tried, and has failed, in so many places with such bloody results.&quot;<p>This isn&#x27;t Marxism, that&#x27;s a lazy comparison. At its core, Marxism is about shared access to the means of production. Basic income has nothing to do with changing who owns the means of production (or at least, it could mean that, but it doesn&#x27;t have to mean that).<p>Furthermore, whilst Marx had some interesting ideas, he also had at least one dangerously bad one. I&#x27;m referring to the dictatorship of the proletariat...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dictatorship_of_the_proletaria...</a><p>... I&#x27;d argue that no attempt to achieve communism at a state level has ever got past that stage, because the path from a society controlled by power to a true communist society is beyond the imagination of many.<p>That said, forms of socialism that don&#x27;t rely on a dictatorial intermediary stage do exist, and just because one form of socialism is misguided doesn&#x27;t mean they are all misguided.