Do you follow Yanis Varoufakis? Two recent articles, on UK and on protest. Archived Message
Posted by John Monro on November 25, 2022, 7:08 pm
I'm not sure why it is, but Yanis Varoufakis does seem to rub up a lot of left-wingers the wrong way. Is it his academic background? His wealthy upbringing? His motorbike and leather coat? Because he's Greek? Or accusations of self promotion?
This is a real shame, because he is an important intellectual support of left wing ideas and policies - finance, economics and politics. . I have all his books (on Kindle) We should be able to admire his command of his brief, his intellectual capabilities, his sheer energy.
Two recent articles are worth reading.
One, He makes use of the Iranian protests to muse on independent thinking whilst part of a left-wing politics - he's called himself earlier for instance an "erratic marxist". He starts his article nicely: Dealing with random, unprovoked abuse is never easy. But dealing with random, unprovoked praise can be even harder. An Athenian taxi driver, a Nazi sympathiser, told me recently, “I am a Golden Dawn voter, but I think the world of you.” I would rather that he had punched me in the stomach.
Independent thought can lead to sharing your political bed with some unwelcome bedfellows......I feel much the same having to agree with Tucker Carlson in regard to the Russo-Ukrainian- NATO war.
Two. Rishi Sunak’s ‘grown-up’ austerity is designed to keep zombie capitalism alive -- The demise of Trussonomics was a welcome victory for decency and common sense in a minor battle within a broader class war. Sadly, the class that Liz Truss tried to bolster with copious tax and regulatory gifts will win this war by deploying an even nastier, blunter, dirtier weapon: austerity