Yanis Varoufakis
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1,142 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that is so, so crushing.
But I think everybody understands that.
But I'll tell you what the one insight I got, how easy it is.
And I'm going to talk about the left now because I'm a leftist.
I don't know what it means to be a rightist.
It's beyond my comprehension.
But I can tell you as a leftist that the worst aspect of that experience is
was the speed with which good comrades, you know, people that I thought the world of, who have done a lot, sacrificed a lot, how quickly they can become lured by power.
And, you know, just to completely trash their own principles.
That...
is the greatest source of sorrow, and I'll carry it with me to my grave.
Well, I think that is what I'm saying, but this is a symptom of the main point I'm making, not the cause.
The point I'm making is in the book.
is that we are experiencing a major transformation, which can only be compared to what was happening in this country in the 1770s and 1780s, the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
At that time, power shifted from those who owned land
and that ownership equipped them with the power to extract ground rent to capitalism, as Adam Smith explained, as David Ricardo explained, as Karl Marx explained, where it's ownership of the machinery that gives you an opportunity to orchestrate production and to extract surplus value from labor.
That ascertained the world as we know it.
Similarly today,
We have, and you see, I don't want to get immersed in discussions about AI, about algorithms, surveillance, capitalism.
That's all important.
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