Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Richard D. Wolff | DiEM25
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I think that's so beautiful that Dr. Wolff's father wanted him to learn Greek, Latin, Plato, Aristotle, and Marx. What a gift to have a parent that instills the love of understanding the world.
If Richard Wolff is this optimistic at 78 then I guess i have no excuse to be pessimistic at 27.
My grandparents went thru two world wars, a pandemic and a depression. History repeats itself. Hope your path opens up to meet the changes successfully.
Prof Wolff AND Yanis Varoufakis at the same time?! I don’t think my heart can take it!
Logic genius huh? What’s “fake”?
Haha I had the same reaction
Me too
Me three!
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Been listening to Prof. Wolff's lectures and interviews for ages and loved every bit of it, but never have I heard him talk about his personal life and influences, and it was incredibly interesting learning how his thinking developed through his life. Massive appreciation for this amazing programme to both of you.
logic IS A BEAUTIFUL THING!
Yes TheDoubleBee, I haven't heard Prof. Wolff ever discuss his early experiences either. A good informative and interesting conversation.
He has an interview at Valuetainment if you want some more early life stories.
The facts that Hoover's scholarship and his professors ignorant of Marx were key factors in his passage into the professorship just cracks me up...the wonderful irony of it gives me hope...
Hi @@dzermas Not sure if I have time for it. So good to have hear the exchange between them. Am also re-reading two books on post-WWII global economy. So glad to hear from Wolff and Varoufakis that in the past few years more people are interested in their ideas. Best regards.
Very touching to hear Prof. Wolff’s personal life story. Very thoughtful of Yaris to ask about his mother. This is economics with a heartbeat👍🏽❤️
Its conversations like this that give me hope for a better future.
Tom Pappalardo 💯…of course.❤️✊🏾🌎✌🏾
Agreed! And I don't even believe in hope.
@@kkay3784 Must be a fake comment. Too shallow to be true.
@@theknowall2232 No. Just not a fan.
@@kkay3784 When I listened to Yanis in the past, I thought he was on the honest side of politics. After watching this video I realize that he is controlled opposition, which means he is following the dictates of the ruling elites.
'Democratic' countries are controlled by the establishment. The leaders of the establishment are the owners of the world cartel of private central banks. The same cabal own the multinationals, the world mainstream media (including Google and social platforms like UA-cam) and they control governments. View the realzionistnews website if you want detail of who the leaders of the establishment are.
Yanis ignores the existance of the establishment and pretends the government is in control.
The people that give me hope are those that expose the corruption of politicians who are puppets of the establishment.
The current 'plandemic' is being used by the establishment to accelerate UN agenda 21, which has the aim of increasing the power and control of the establishment.
View the UA-cam channel, *'UK Column'.* and support them. These are the people that give us hope for the future.
This 76 year old learned Marx at my fathers knee just like Dr. Wolff. So delighted to hear this broadcast by two of my favourite intellectuals. Thank you. Rather than searching out opportunities at recognized institution to develop courses, why not begin international online universities offering a far larger audience with greater participation and opportunity to support and build an international movement developing leaders with support to form real political parties in many countries. Don’t exclude the wide range of interest and talent already available but currently frustrated without massive support.
excellent point - thanks.
What a great idea!
Do it. Please!
Richard Wolff is 78! He looks damn good.
Indeed, I would have guessed late 60's at the oldest...
Wow, I would have said he was at least 10 years younger.
He's still sharp as knife too
@@leftalonetalking991 Very much so
Same age as Biden 😮
just discover professor Wolff few days ago, this was a pleasure to listen to, wish him best of health and energy for the left's interests and progress.
[ Thank you *~ Yanis ~ for this brilliantly-belated tribute to a true visionary. ** Richard Woolf ** is a treasure, and allowing him this biographical showcase for the evolution of his ideas, philosophy, and integrity. Brav-OOO!!!
A completely interesting conversation, not on any focused topic, but a discussion between two leaders of the global progressive movement. So glad to have seen it. Thank you.
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Two of the brightest people in the world. A pleasure to listen to them.
Many are bright as they are, but few as courageous
Men we need like brilliant Thomas Jefferson, Madison, etc. our founders for a new type of government by the people not the royals. Our democracy moves forward to meet our changes and social needs. We find what we have become is not who we want to be in this modern world. We deserve better for our future success.
So great to see my 2 favorite economists talking to eachother.
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
I feel or better said, I hope change is in the wind.
Amen !
Lenin? You quote a tyrannical mass murderer!
If you think the unproductive and parasitic have a place in a Leninist murderous tyranny, let me tell you.. they will be the first to be purged. You want that world? Be careful what you wish for.
First Yannis during the introduction uses ‘comrade’ twice, then he introduces his guest as a commie and now this idiot quotes Lenin so I’m out of here. When it comes to communism humanity we would be wise not to slip on the same dog shit one more time!
@@derek3266 ...mmmmmmppffh.
My fellow Americans; obsessed with semiotics, deaf and blind to discourse, to Hermeneutics if you will...
...and thus, you have charade we call American capitalism.
Run along, Derek; best be a winner, Derek, or you'll not have the time, energy, or wherewithal to consider the meaning for the symbols; the forest for the trees - you'll just be another victim, crushed beneath its wheels.
Never a dull moment listening to Prof Wolff; I could listen to him all night and don't get bored.
Wolf gang and Yanis two great people , Thank you.
I prefer Wolff pack (I did have to check if Richard was official or he had changed it, Wolfgang Wolff would be a sweet name though) but to each his own, it is wonderful hearing a bit more about the Prof.'s backstory, wonderful insight from both of them.
Don't you just love Progressives?
It is great listening to two wise men, time went by fast! Thank you Yanis and prof. Wolff.
I watched the whole discussion in one go. Amazing display of man’s cooperative and constructive abilities. How do we enlarge this and attract more young and old people to behave this way instead of going around beating and choking each other on social media?
💪🏽💪🏽❤️🏀 Kudos Gentlemen. Star Trek and not The Matrix👍🏽
You can't regulate human nature. Competition is in our DNA since after the garden of Eden
@@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993 then let it be a constructive competition about good ideas.
I watch Dr. Wolff a lot. I adore the happy eyes and delightful dimples as Yanis gives him room to do the best stories and economics ever! Yay, for Diem25! Thank you both so much!
Two of my favorites together.
As a woman of almost 66 years and one who had always been "apolitical," I finally voted for the first time ever in the 2016 election First for Bernie Sanders in the primaries, then for Jill Stein in the general. I told my family and friends (who were somewhat appalled that I didn't vote " against" the man who is now #45) that I didn't believe in voting for the least worst. I quoted Malcolm X to anybody who would listen--because I am old enough to remember that firebrand truth-teller--"they show you the wolf to get you to vote for the fox."
This election will be the same, a dreary coda to might have been. Although these days I am now in the streets working for movements of demand rather than a political campaign. Joe Biden is emblematic of everything wrong with both political parties and with the Dems in particular. When will the true progressive left realize (as Kshama Sawant aptly says) that the Democratic party is the graveyard of progressive policies? It has ever been so, from when we were given Harry Truman instead of Henry Wallace. and then with the two recent neo-liberals instead of Bernie Sanders. [They failed to realize that even Bernie was a concession choice for many of us]. And they've systematically unraveled our meager progressive gains ever since.
Third party or revolution. My pitchfork is ready. It's "Serf's up" time.
A lovely contribution, thank you Ramona and I hope this latest uprising leads to more unpredictable developments in our direction. Search for Angela Davis 'revolution today', I think you'll like that.
I too followed the same voting pattern, also one of my favorite quotes from X. I also like MLK's speech on "The tranquilizing drug of incrementalism." I too have my pitchfork within arms reach, the day will come when the cornered and downtrodden rat will bite the fat cats of oppression....Keep fighting!
13:56 They think us "Stupid or dangerous" I'll take those label's and won't bother to inform those who would apply them that there is a razor's edge between courage and stupidity...
More parties is not the solution ,european countries have multi party system and guess what, bumming us out is all what they end up doing.
Thank you Ramona for your very interesting analysis!!!
A vote for Jill Stein was a vote for Trump. Thanks for nothing.
Richard Wolff is not only the foremost Marxist political economist but he is one of a few that offers practical ideas for a post-capitalist future.
I, as some other listeners, absolutely love the biography of Prof. Wolff!
This is the type of conversation we need to have more of. Our sound bite world has reduced our ability to wade into nuanced waters.
We in pakistan are looking towards you in this era of chokehold capitalism. May you revive a breeze of fresh air of hope for global humanity!
Yanis and Richard!!! Two of my faves!
This was a fabulous interview. The persistence and stamina of these two is amazing. I am about 3 months older than Professor Wolff so can't imagine how he can keep up the pace!
Indeed, I think having good conscience & doing important work is a great ingredient for eternal youth!
Two very big influences on me in the past year! It's refreshing comprehending the current situation so well despite not being able to help as much as I wish I could. Thank you both for your much needed voices!
Hello from NewZealand, we have MMP, I don't agree with the list part of our MMP system, but, it has produced a sane leader, a left leaning mother, who has put people before profit and is steering us out of covid in a sensible and successful manner. I love both Richard and Yanis, so fascinating o see them in conversion.
You people are so lucky
Wonderful conversation! Thank you, Yanis and Richard. It's delightful to be able to hear two men with expertise in economics, who appreciate each other and each other's contributions, talk about the state of the world and what can be done. I very much appreciate the rare biographical information shared by Richard Wolff, made possible by Yanis' persistent efforts to get Richard to talk about his parents and his upbringing. Interesting thoughts about the state of academia, the Left, and internationalism and about what needs to happen--and the possibilities--in each of these areas.
Brlilliant @RichardDWolff and Yanis Varoufakis. Thank you.
I thought I couldn't love Dr. Wolff anymore, but the charming background of his kitchen and its old stove versus the professionally manicured and 6 figure backgrounds on the Zoom calls on MSNBC and CNN show how he is so genuine.
These gentlemen are right about modern academia: it has become a seat of networking, rather than learning.
One of the best interviews of Prof Wolff. Yanis n Richard are invaluable gems.
Excellent discussion. Two amazing minds. Thank you!
Thank you so much, booth!!!! Greatings from Barna.
I've sent this to my grandchildren
Ah! don't,you'll make me cry thinking about what could have been.
FANTASIC!!
I follow Richard and love his talks, very educational and informative. I've passed his link to younger people I know too.
Oh great!!! Kind of unexpected to see two of my favorite economists together.
Hope at some point you also talk to Heiner Flassbeck. Another great economist, but quite isolated because he mostly published in German.
I could listen to the two of you for hours.
I wish yanis' economic course lectures were available.
does he also have lectures on "how to betray your electorate after an election" ?
@@davidcopperfield2278 I think you and others with this opinion need to read "Adults in the room" and "The weak suffer what they must" where it is pretty clear that one person alone cannot fight a system. It doesn't matter how good a fighter, numbers will win, "they" are organised but a minority and "their" strategy relies on divide and conquer.
@Logic genius Oh someone with a screen name like logic genius, handing out links to videos about the Rothschilds, what glorious nonsense will be hiding there? ^^
@@davidcopperfield2278 i dont understand your commentary. he quitted syriza because of tsypras's treason
@Logic genius ahhh conspiracy theories with 0 proof. My absolute favorite past time
Great stuff! 2 favorites got together at last!! Amazing! Ty.
I took Prof. Wolff’s class during my studies and learned so much.. He is an amazing teacher and such a rare intellectual and economist of our times.
@Logic genius ~ No need to insult these presenters who are touching the surface of their vast knowledge for folks to build on; more of their knowledge through researching their lectures and book presentations. Certainly they're NOT "lackeys".
Really great and inspiring discussion between two brilliant minds; thank you so much
Amazing talk!
Thanks Yanis and Richard.
Avante DiEM25!
Niiiiiiice. Great to see these two talking together!
TWO GREAT LEADERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, WHICH UNFORTUNATELY CANNOT GAIN TRACTION.. due to the power of money.. and the distraction ability of the MSM on the majority.
@@tomtesoro7994 not so fast. Young people don't watch msm or TV
@@alexpodolsky8980 unfortunately correct! young people, have been cleverly 'politically dispersed' by rampant debt and consumerism into a hazy world of 'independent individualism' for marketing and political objectives.. ONCE (upon a time) youth had the fresh, responsibility free opportunity of free thought, allowing them as a cohort to be simply 'human' and more than likely 'think' in terms of ALL humanity, idealism, collective thinking, BUT NOW, neo-capitalism has 'netted them' as just another 'market share' into their debt traps, both education and consumerism.. thus their thinking has become (in the main) a case of 'ME vs the collective' ie my survival vs the rest, my future vs my society.. Neo-Liberalism has made 'serfs out of human beings.. the trap was set and is now sprung.. sure rebellion is in the streets and anger is now rife, BUT collective unity as one entity against the 1% who are the cause is NOT evident.. YET!
Fascinating, than you both so much, best hour I've spent listening for many a long day.
I love Richard wolff but hearing him talk like this is way better than his show. He's so great and talking. He should do a podcast
I enjoy these conversations. It's good to hear an honest critique of Bernie. He seems to provoke extreme opinions on both sides, when his goals were always rather modest and far from radical.
This series of interviews really is fantastic - genuinely engaging, challenging voices - nice work Yannis
It was a very pleasant surprise to find out there is such an interesting interview with Wolff on DiEM TV. Nice questions Yanis.
Way to go guys, your strength and truth will always outlive the simple quest of money enrichment. Your knowledge and insights are invaluable
This was great. I could watch you two talk all day.
I have been waiting for so long to see you two together! Thank you both!
Yanis.
Thanks for this series. I love them all.
I learned economics at Mexico City in UNAM university. The last faculty that teached Marxism in Latinoamérica as a full 10 semesters degree. For me was the most great of all my economics classes.
Thanks to that I can see the world always in two different ways. That’s what we need right now: think out of the box I unite us in trying to work a way out of this economic and injustice system.
Please talk about Bitcoin. I know this was the last episode but I think we need that approach right now to make us more sovereign.
Bitcoin and Marxism!
What do you think?
Cheers!!!!
He has videos where he’s talked about btc, he says it would resemble the gold standard and immediately plunge the world into deflationary depressions, a beautiful algorithm with no chance for a monetary regime. He advocates for the IMF to issue world currency for trade transactions, with each country contributing according to their balance of payments
Así enseñamos marxismo en América Latina. That's how we teach marxism in Latin American. In Latin America, liberty is more than the market.
My professors would never talk ill of capitalism. You two and people like you are what helps me understand my very basic knowledge and what i can do to help.
Thank You both.
Great admiration and respect for you two gentlemen. Thank you.
Yanis, you used a term like "two [versions] of the same substance" to describe Democratic and Republican political parties. Former UK MP George Galloway coined a somewhat more colorful description that I hope y'all appreciate: "Two cheeks of the same arse."
@@gluttonousmachina2961 The UK got the Eton educated fool ...Instead of the inspiring, left wing Jeremy Corbyn. Thank goodness George Galloway has formed the British Workers Party. Shout the good news far and wide.
Ralph Nader..."The two party system is one bird with two wings."
Intelligence… what a soothing delight
a very pleasant conversation between two friends unmasking the fissures felt by bankers, lawyers to students. A hearty thanks from me!
I don't know how to get it all organized, but discussions like this make me feel very comfortable istening to them.
HOPE!!!
I could listen to you two FOREVER
This is such an enjoyable conversation, though I have heard Professor Wolff say all this before. There are some of us who are left over from the old left. There are old people who are veterans of trying to expose lies fed us by high school teachers, union struggles, the Mc Carthy witch hunts, Viet Nam, civil rights, housing advocacy and all the other causes around which we organized, we still hang around and try to learn, and apply it. It is a joy to hear two dedicated Marxists talk together in easy to understand language. Some of us were never given college educations but learned Marx ourselves because it made sense, but it was hard slogging without some interpretation. It is so enlightening.
No, during the McCarthy Era internationalism was all but killed off. At one time the left, or that part of it that I was familiar with, was frightened, jailed economically deprived enough that they had a hard time nurturing the next generation of leftists. The left had to reinvent itself and one of the taboos of left discourse on the street was to discuss international alliances. "International communism" was a terrible bugaboo. Now we might begin to talk less obliquely when we organize around local and national issues.
Building a new reality based on common sense economics and supported by higher ideals is the way to come up from the ashes. People like you both are paving the way to a clear path for the ones who will hear and lead. Exciting times
I have seen, enjoyed, and been educated by many of Dr. Wolff's lectures/videos. This has been the most moving and revelatory. I had not heard his family history in such depth, and found his memories as much, or even more valuable and insightful than his formal lectures.
What a great show thank you both so much for sharing a bit about your actual lives along with the mountains of knowledge you have attained over the years, fantastic! Stay safe my cherished friends.
I'm a grandmother of 4 . They are never going to join either party. Two are adults who are going to join the people's party now, Two are teens who will join at 18. The young are going to be the front line for a better future. I'm proud to have been a part of teaching them to think for themselves and then lead not follow. Words backed by actions! I am so proud to follow their lead into a better world for everyone.
"Another Now," your next book, should be available yesterday.
I liked before I even watched it.
Was hoping for this to conversation happen.
Please if possible bring Prof. Steve Keen :)
Great idea, Steve Keen is a phenomenal economist (and general analyst).
Used to listen to Keen but he's more of a Blairite and hated Corbyn
@@rattylol Definitely not a Blairite in the slightest. I don't know how much more outspokenly anti-neoliberalism a person can be than Steve Keen.
@@rattylol Steve Keen could barely be further from a Blairite. He's one of the most outspoken non-socialist opponentst of Neoliberalism and neoclassical economics.
Wolff, Keen, Michael Hudson with Varoufakis would be awesome, could entertain me for the rest of my life.
Great !!!
What a great coalition of minds.....been waiting for these two collaborate !
Bloody brilliant
Go get him Dr wolf !!! I for one stand by you !!!
@Logic geniuswell of course George Soros does , quite handsomely , I might ad !
A great watch
Delightful conversation. Really enjoyed it. Bravo!
Amazing. I hope we can start to organize with each other, nationally AND internationally.
Happy you didn't "dwell" on Biden, long ,I won't even acknowledge him or "Scump!"
Excellent show, I am an economist quickly learning more about Marxist economic theory. Decent and logical content was presented.
This was my favorite interview. Professor Wolff you’re remarkable and did your parents proud.
Thank you for talking to Richard D. Wolff! I'm still relatively new to left-wing politics and I appreciate Prof. Wolff's easy to understand explanations regarding all things socialism. Furthermore, I'd like to suggest two guests for after the summer break: Gar Alperovitz, inventor and chief advocate of the "pluralist commonwealth" model of democratising the economy, and German economist Heiner Flassbeck.
What a JOY, and it is just beginning!
@Logic genius"the heart provides reasons the brain is blind to" (Pasteur, somewhat paraphrased) and I reflect upon the distinction between 'reasons' as "rationalia", and 'rationality' as a projection of the light of "Reason" (LÓGOS).
@Logic genius good friend: this has been the first time I have entered this sort of challenge for which I am poorly equipped. But I have enjoyed this little bit of it. And cordially wish you the best, as a true friend would do.
Glad to hear from Prof. Wolff and Yanis together. Although academic world now misses Yanis but Europe politics need him more now I think. I try to follow Prof. Wolff frequently and it would be interesting to know his frank opinion regarding present China. Yanis who while he was finance minister used to move around in motor bike which does not come in wildest dreams in India, can set an example to whole of Europe. All the best for DiEM25.
Brilliant
Love these guys.
Thank you.
ahh this is refreshing and inspiring!!
Only 20mins in and this is great ^.^
Excellent seeing both of you together.
Yes we liked that, and what a history there is in all your backgrounds.
A GREAT interview. Funny, heartening. Don't miss it!
I guess I've waited 65 years for this!
Bernie in 2016-great and transformative (and I understood the necessity of his decision to remain with the Democrats).
Bernie in 2020-a tremendous disappointment, right from the start of his campaign. He let establishment persons run his campaign, and they ruined it.
Been waitin for this!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your work I admire you for your persistence in the truth and facts about our economic system, I encourage you to continue your work informing the masses of people and organizing and creating coalitions around the world. Thank you.
Lots of luv n respect for these two intellectual gods of our time!!!
Two great scholars, thinkers and speskers
Fantastic. Thank you both.
Andrea Molton.
Coherent
Now i am glad that i was not in New York ever before, because New York in a few years will be much better place than it was ever
Two of my all time favorites who can articulate our current capitalist economic morass. Thank you so much for this Yanis. Was wonderful to hear so much of Richard's life story. I wish this was 3 hours long.