Basic income In
Real Freedom for All: What (if anything) can justify capitalism? (1995) he argues for both the justice and feasibility of a
basic income for every citizen (UBI). Van Parijs asserts that it promotes the achievement of a
real freedom to make choices. For example, he purports that one cannot really choose to stay at home to raise children or start a business if one cannot afford to. As proposed by Van Parijs, such freedom should be feasible through taxing the scarce, valued social good of jobs, as a form of
income redistribution. In a 2025 interview, Van Parijs stated that
artificial intelligence would lead to further
wealth and power inequality, which could be counteracted with the implementation of UBI. he discusses a wide range of measures such as a
language tax which would be paid by English-speaking countries, a ban on the dubbing of films, and the enforcement of a linguistic territoriality principle that would protect weaker languages. Van Parijs's work is sometimes associated with the
September Group of
analytic Marxism, though he is not himself a Marxist. He has described his political philosophy as "left-
Rawlsian" and "
globalist". ==Honours==