Claus Offe (born 16 March 1940 in Berlin)[1] is a German political sociologist of Marxist orientation.
Once a student of Jürgen Habermas, the left-leaning German academic is counted among the second generation Frankfurt School.
But then directly moves on to the question of why so many people, both elites and non-elites, seem reluctant or even against the idea of an unconditional basic income.
He argues that one way of looking at this is to acknowledge that certain groups may well have legitimate or rational reasons to fear the introduction of unconditional basic income.
Taking these fears into account Offe suggests that the basic income implementation should be "governed by principles of gradualism and reversibility".