I had to step away for a bit when Chakrabati asked for a greater emphasis on feminism in Varoufakis's book. It it femisist, utterly feminist. Yanis writes about how the Greek people have been ruthlessly exploited and how the structures that enables the exploitation of most of all os us. Fully half of those affected by these attacks are women, therefore the suffering of women are contained and a delt with within the larger human suffering described in the book. Can we just not understand that, must we have these rituals in which we emphasize that the suffering of one group must be extra specially considered? The absolute beauty of Yanis's books is that he explains how we are all united in exploitation and how rebelling against that would benefit us all!
Something quite obvious that has escaped me over the years. Democracy is not only about averaging out outliers. At the same time it is a very effective way of responding to challenges as an institutional and cultural apparatus for crowdsourcing ideas as Yanis pointed out.
The UK Government should have employed this man as the Brexit advisor. He seems to know all the EU bureaucrats tricks. If only it had just been left as the original trade policy. Who cares who asks the questions are they good questions that's what is important
George X. Moutafis Και ομως οι περισσότεροι πολίτες στην Ελλαδα τον μισούσαν γιατι ετσι τους ειπαν τα κανάλια. Είναι τραγικό όλος ο πλανήτης να σε προσκαλεί σε ανοικτές διαλέξεις και να σε χειροκροτεί και οι ομοεθνείς σου να σε βρίζουν και να μην πιστεύουν σε εσένα. Ο άνθρωπος έχει παιδεία και ο λόγος του στα αγγλικά είναι απίστευτος.
Presumably if they were underpaid they wouldn't have come back to work for 300 Euro a month... unless there's some other element of our economic system depressing wages.
Forgive me but isn’t the interviewer supposed to ask questions then listen to the interviewee? This woman is so full of herself and her own voice whilst attempting to cajole the audience, that the actual interview is lost. The audience are there to listen to him and perhaps learn from him - not her!! Let the man speak for gods sake!!
I regret that I ignored Varoufakis for too long for he is an economic intellectual. I'm very cynical of Fin/Econ "expert" especially the one with LSE, OxCam, Harvard or Princeton deg. Yanis is an economist but cut from quite distinguished material. I'll get that book, Being Adult ... after finish viewing this clip.
He expresses very clearly what a lot of people feel and are very angry about. Hence the brexit vote, for some people being regarded as peasantry with no right to democracy was just too much.
If government won't stop people being born, then government & breeders should be forced to pay for the care of childfree people for the rest of their lives.
Surely it's easier to "democratise" (in the way Yanis is advocating) a single nation - the UK, say - than the whole of the EU? This seems an inconsistency in Yanis' argument.
great discussion, Q&A, biography, I don't like Shami because she threw an honorable man Phil Shiner trying to bring justice for victims of the Iraq war crime under the bus, that being said great stuff Yanis, although I'm sorry Brexit and the Lexit campaign won and leaving the EU means leaving the single market and customs union, a Soft Brexit meaning staying in the EU just not saying it officially and good can come out of leaving the EU like nationalizing major industries and most likely more of a Green revolution that is if a Corbyn or Green government can get into power though the latter is too committed to the EU. I do support EU left reforms but we also should think outside the box and build a better alternative to the EU. and I'm so glad Yanis called out the Guardian, New York Times, and the smears on Corbyn and the very British deep state coup being unleashed on him which Corbyn sadly has only been an appeaser and him and people he put in high positions himself included, Momentum and Novara Media have thrown under the bus and have have been slandering comrades accused of anti-Semitism when in fact they are simply critics of Israel, some are Jews who are critics of Israel and many Jewish and non-Jewish have an honorable record of anti-racism and racial/social justice campaigns and anti-imperialism. this and their shameful Anti-Russia hysteria.
'' my advice to both parties, but primarily to the government it was the governments remit to begin the negotiations '' 20.04 speaks volumes as to the political logic of Varafoukis . Now essentially seeing himself as an advisor he warns the Tory nationalist reactionary anti working class government of Teresa May how to by definition 'succeed' in its negotiations for Brexit . Varoufakis's 'nominal and formal' defence of Europe , is not only coached in terms of an essential arbitrariness as to the consequences of Brexit , but one that actually comes with no analysis or political evaluation of Europe as a capitalist system in the context of world economy and its debt crisis. What is completely lacking from Varoufakis is any real understanding of the contradictions of world economy that pose a dire crisis for the world working class. On the one hand Europe is to be criticised over Greece , but to be defended seemingly over Brexit. But hey nothing really matters , the working class can advance its cause under either system. His is the voice and the political logic of the pseudo left that seeks to mount a campaign of populism with a completely arbitrary position as to the objective reality the working class faces . This political gibberish is not only to be found coming from the larynx of Varoufakis , it is coming from the populist Melenchon in France , as well as Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Bernie Sanders , and Ocasia Cortez. I urge all here to read the WSWS on all these political obscurantists and charlatans, starting with this: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/15/varo-f15.html
Feminism is an interpretation of life. All interpretations are lopsided, and therefore fundamentally in error. We must understand what it is to be human, not from a male nor a female perspective, but what actually is. Only then do problems cease to be.
Witness is the basis of all knowledge, all else is speculation and projection of opinion fraught with emotional and imaginary connected dots. In the digital age Jesus would be another brilliant orator and philosopher as others speaking truth to power.
It's not a cult, but it is antidote to the The Cult of Cynicism and Despair. So you know... best of luck with that, because looking around right now, it doesn't seem to be working that well.
So Yanis is a mathematician. Well, well. Economics come second. Yet, he was the Finance Minister of Greece. He could have been the Minister of Statistics in Greece. 🤔🤔 Jeremy Corbyn is a thorough gentlemen in politics of Britain. 👊👊
The story about his parents is brilliant!
My parents were a role model and also my political opposite. They gave me ammo and reason to fight.
Ο γοητευτικός και το δράμα τής Ελλάδας..... δράμα.......ανυπόφορο; ανυπόφορο!
I wish he had been my Prof...love this guy!
Astonishingly good!!
A Legend of our times 😇
Two of my FAVOURITE people
Amazing talk, gives me hope.
voter here , and i won over one more so far. greetings from berlin : ]]
yanis is the man!!! yanis for prez!
I had to step away for a bit when Chakrabati asked for a greater emphasis on feminism in Varoufakis's book. It it femisist, utterly feminist. Yanis writes about how the Greek people have been ruthlessly exploited and how the structures that enables the exploitation of most of all os us. Fully half of those affected by these attacks are women, therefore the suffering of women are contained and a delt with within the larger human suffering described in the book. Can we just not understand that, must we have these rituals in which we emphasize that the suffering of one group must be extra specially considered? The absolute beauty of Yanis's books is that he explains how we are all united in exploitation and how rebelling against that would benefit us all!
Imagine this brilliant spirit negotiating with Schaeuble
Great leader..
Something quite obvious that has escaped me over the years. Democracy is not only about averaging out outliers. At the same time it is a very effective way of responding to challenges as an institutional and cultural apparatus for crowdsourcing ideas as Yanis pointed out.
That BoJo comment was awesome ^_^
thank you
The UK Government should have employed this man as the Brexit advisor. He seems to know all the EU bureaucrats tricks.
If only it had just been left as the original trade policy.
Who cares who asks the questions are they good questions that's what is important
You are moron. There is nothing that UK could have negotiated agains EU. What do you expect from a fascist UK ant fighting a giant?
Εξαιρετικός
George X. Moutafis Και ομως οι περισσότεροι πολίτες στην Ελλαδα τον μισούσαν γιατι ετσι τους ειπαν τα κανάλια. Είναι τραγικό όλος ο πλανήτης να σε προσκαλεί σε ανοικτές διαλέξεις και να σε χειροκροτεί και οι ομοεθνείς σου να σε βρίζουν και να μην πιστεύουν σε εσένα. Ο άνθρωπος έχει παιδεία και ο λόγος του στα αγγλικά είναι απίστευτος.
I am not gay but I would really like a cuddle from Yanis.
bud and brew and talk of saving the world. Nurture the seeds of love.
It ‘s fine , it ‘s called real brotherly love . Fine in Southern Europe not so much in northern “ emotionally constipated “ Europe . 😇
Nail on the head. I am from England, the most emotionally constipated of all Europeans.
Peter Hardie - wait until you meet the germans.
Yanis is sexy af.
31:00 Yanis Varoufakis is a hero for re-hiring those 300 underpaid cleaning workers.
Presumably if they were underpaid they wouldn't have come back to work for 300 Euro a month... unless there's some other element of our economic system depressing wages.
last point about Britain is very important
Forgive me but isn’t the interviewer supposed to ask questions then listen to the interviewee? This woman is so full of herself and her own voice whilst attempting to cajole the audience, that the actual interview is lost.
The audience are there to listen to him and perhaps learn from him - not her!!
Let the man speak for gods sake!!
I regret that I ignored Varoufakis for too long for he is an economic intellectual. I'm very cynical of Fin/Econ "expert" especially the one with LSE, OxCam, Harvard or Princeton deg.
Yanis is an economist but cut from quite distinguished material.
I'll get that book, Being Adult ... after finish viewing this clip.
LOVE your mum and dad story. Kama Sutra
Reigns SUPREME!
VIVA YANNIS !
He expresses very clearly what a lot of people feel and are very angry about. Hence the brexit vote, for some people being regarded as peasantry with no right to democracy was just too much.
Ah Shami, the only person to have earned a seat in the lords since it was created.
Yes by whitewashing Labour.
Nice , extremely nice joke 😎
@@nuttall47 I didn't say f all about Labour, I was referring to her life's work, as opposed to some piss ant political musing on one aspect of it.
@@Nine-Signs she covered up the antisemit labour for her reward!
star-trek analogy.
If government won't stop people being born, then government & breeders should be forced to pay for the care of childfree people for the rest of their lives.
Surely it's easier to "democratise" (in the way Yanis is advocating) a single nation - the UK, say - than the whole of the EU? This seems an inconsistency in Yanis' argument.
More people more democratize.
Why would Anarchists attack Yanis? I'm an Anarcho-Communist and I want to be his friend.
great discussion, Q&A, biography, I don't like Shami because she threw an honorable man Phil Shiner trying to bring justice for victims of the Iraq war crime under the bus, that being said great stuff Yanis, although I'm sorry Brexit and the Lexit campaign won and leaving the EU means leaving the single market and customs union, a Soft Brexit meaning staying in the EU just not saying it officially and good can come out of leaving the EU like nationalizing major industries and most likely more of a Green revolution that is if a Corbyn or Green government can get into power though the latter is too committed to the EU. I do support EU left reforms but we also should think outside the box and build a better alternative to the EU. and I'm so glad Yanis called out the Guardian, New York Times, and the smears on Corbyn and the very British deep state coup being unleashed on him which Corbyn sadly has only been an appeaser and him and people he put in high positions himself included, Momentum and Novara Media have thrown under the bus and have have been slandering comrades accused of anti-Semitism when in fact they are simply critics of Israel, some are Jews who are critics of Israel and many Jewish and non-Jewish have an honorable record of anti-racism and racial/social justice campaigns and anti-imperialism. this and their shameful Anti-Russia hysteria.
'' my advice to both parties, but primarily to the government it was the governments remit to begin the negotiations '' 20.04 speaks volumes as to the political logic of Varafoukis . Now essentially seeing himself as an advisor he warns the Tory nationalist reactionary anti working class government of Teresa May how to by definition 'succeed' in its negotiations for Brexit .
Varoufakis's 'nominal and formal' defence of Europe , is not only coached in terms of an essential arbitrariness as to the consequences of Brexit , but one that actually comes with no analysis or political evaluation of Europe as a capitalist system in the context of world economy and its debt crisis.
What is completely lacking from Varoufakis is any real understanding of the contradictions of world economy that pose a dire crisis for the world working class. On the one hand Europe is to be criticised over Greece , but to be defended seemingly over Brexit. But hey nothing really matters , the working class can advance its cause under either system. His is the voice and the political logic of the pseudo left that seeks to mount a campaign of populism with a completely arbitrary position as to the objective reality the working class faces .
This political gibberish is not only to be found coming from the larynx of Varoufakis , it is coming from the populist Melenchon in France , as well as Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Bernie Sanders , and Ocasia Cortez.
I urge all here to read the WSWS on all these political obscurantists and charlatans, starting with this: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/15/varo-f15.html
@jerosbo not exactly sure of the relevance of such a request . Does it matter ???
Feminism is an interpretation of life. All interpretations are lopsided, and therefore fundamentally in error. We must understand what it is to be human, not from a male nor a female perspective, but what actually is. Only then do problems cease to be.
said like a man would see it.
Somethings don’t age well !
Witness is the basis of all knowledge, all else is speculation and projection of opinion fraught with emotional and imaginary connected dots. In the digital age Jesus would be another brilliant orator and philosopher as others speaking truth to power.
shami Chakrabati is not a decent or honest person...
that makes me like her more! thanks!
"comoditisation" "Professor Varounakis" What?
This why great orators were banned in Athens. Swaying a crowd on a false premise can lead you to catastrophe.
Cult of Varoufakis. LOL
It's not a cult, but it is antidote to the The Cult of Cynicism and Despair.
So you know... best of luck with that, because looking around right now, it doesn't seem to be working that well.
Economics and culture is not a cult but it is a complex issue, who knew? Easier to start and sell war than prosper from peace is fatal human flaw.
Another Demosthenes,listen at your own peril...
So Yanis is a mathematician. Well, well. Economics come second. Yet, he was the Finance Minister of Greece. He could have been the Minister of Statistics in Greece. 🤔🤔
Jeremy Corbyn is a thorough gentlemen in politics of Britain. 👊👊