The Soviet Union had more of the opposite idea: you must work to earn a living. From the 1936 Soviet constitution, > In the USSR work is a duty and a matter of

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