Yanis Varoufakis
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
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But then very soon after that, when the right approached her and started asking her to spy on former communists on their behalf,
They gave her her first mission to be protected.
She had to accept that mission in order to be protected as the only woman in the school of chemistry.
And her first mission was to keep tabs on a certain gentleman who had just come out of a concentration camp who looked like death warmed up, as you can imagine.
You know, he was less than 50 kilograms after that experience.
who happened to be my dad.
Well, Rory, speaking from personal experience, it's only the right that attack me, for instance, for being a bourgeois socialist champagne leftist.
That criticism doesn't come to me from the left, from the working class.
If you look at history, no rebellion, no deep transformation of society took place without some of the privileged people.
classes or members of the privileged classes siding with the underprivileged from the Christian evolution under the Roman Empire all the way to the anti-slavery movement.
It wasn't the slaves that led the anti-slavery movement.
It was...
haute bourgeois people.
And similarly, I mean, if you look at the stalwarts of radical leftism, people like Engels.
I mean, he was an industrialist in Manchester, and he was using surplus value extracted from the textile factories, whatever it was that he had inherited in order to fund Marx in the British Library's right as capital.
So there's a long tradition of that.
And as I said, it's the right that
use one's upper class upbringing in order to bring one down when one happens to be of a leftist disposition.
That's correct.
My father decided that.
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