Yanis Varoufakis

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 187. Yanis Varoufakis: How The 2008 Crisis Revived Far-Right Populism · 3 May 2026 podcast

Then the officer in charge...

apologizes and says, oh, this was just brutes doing horrible things.

We're very sorry.

Sign this and you're out.

And he looked at the document and said it was a denunciation of communism.

And he said,

Sir, I'm not Buddhist.

I'm not Muslim.

But if you asked me to denounce Islam or Buddhism, I wouldn't do it because it's none of your business.

Similarly, I'm not a communist, but I'm not going to denounce communists.

So they beat him up a bit more and threw him into a prison cell.

And then he got really peeved with this and he was refusing to sign until in the end he became a communist because they put him in a concentration camp with communists.

But he was there for four years.

Didn't sign.

And tell me where your mother's politics came from.

So my mother came from a petty bourgeois Greek family.

Her father was a cobbler.

He was a typical centrist, Venizelist in Greek terms.

And she had a deep antipathy towards the left because at some point she was abducted totally at random by communist partisans.

And she walked into the university with this anti-communist disposition.

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