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In this livestream, Yanis Varoufakis and entrepreneur and commentator Arnaud Bertrand unpack what just happened in Venezuela, why it matters far beyond Latin America, and what people can do when "might makes right" is being sold as order. We'll also look at Europe's response, the oil angle, and the wider shift towards more force, fewer constraints, and weaker rules. And what it means for the future. Hosted by Mehran Khalili. Join us live and put your questions to Yanis and Arnaud! FOLLOW THE SPEAKERS Yanis Varoufakis: (site): https://yanisvaroufakis.eu Arnaud Bertrand (X): https://x.com/RnaudBertrand Mehran Khalili: (newsletter): https://mehrankhalili.com/subscribe SUPPORT US Join DiEM25: https://diem25.org/join ​ Donate to DiEM25: https://diem25.org/donate Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/DiEM25official

Ten years after Greece's thunderous "NO" to austerity, Yanis Varoufakis sits down with film-maker Raoul Martinez and host Mehran Khalili to revisit that historic showdown with Europe's political establishment. We bust the official myths, look at lessons learned, and spell out what activists across Europe must do next. If you missed the story: Greece elected the anti-austerity Syriza party in early 2015, with Yanis Varoufakis as finance minister. After months of bruising talks with the European Central Bank, IMF and European Commission, the government put the creditors' terms to a 5 July referendum. Sixty two percent voted NO — but days later, Athens agreed to a third "bailout", Yanis resigned, and Greece was locked into another cycle of cuts that to this day, it still hasn't escaped. *** SPECIAL OFFER: Use code Storm25 to get 20% off the documentary we discuss in this video, In the Eye of the Storm! https://vimeo.com/ondemand/eyeofthestormenglish *** In this talk, we unpack the new six-part series In the Eye of the Storm – from secret Eurogroup recordings to the street-level activist energy in Athens – and draw fresh lessons on leverage, media war, plan B economics and movement discipline. Whether you marched in 2015 or are gearing up for the next fight, this conversation will arm you with the story behind the headlines and the tactics to win round two. SUPPORT US Join: https://diem25.org/join ​ Donate: https://diem25.org/donate Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/DiEM25official

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis joins us to talk about the presidential election, Joe Biden’s foreign policy legacy and the future of America’s role in the world. On this episode of After America , Yanis Varoufakis joins Dr Emma Shortis to discuss the prospect of a grand deal between the US and China on climate, how Trump emerged from the Obama presidency, and why America isn’t a real democracy. This discussion was recorded on Friday 1 November 2024 and things may have changed since recording. australiainstitute.org.au // @theausinstitute Guest: Yanis Varoufakis, economist, politician, author and the former finance minister of Greece // @yanisvaroufakis Host: Emma Shortis, Director of International & Security Affairs, the Australia Institute // @EmmaShortis Show notes: ‘The end of capitalism with Yanis Varoufakis’ , Follow the Money (March 2024) Yanis Varoufakis – Technofeudalism , National Press Club Address (March 2024) Theme music: Blue Dot Sessions Subscribe for regular updates from the Australia Institute. We’d love to hear your feedback on this series, so send in your questions, comments or suggestions for future episodes to podcasts@australiainstitute.org.au . Support the research powerful interests fear: https://theaus.in/3Q70UxN See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Capitalism is dying, but not in the way you might think. That’s the argument of academic economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who proposes capitalism has mutated into a far more sinister, feudal system on the back of sophisticated algorithms and big tech. On this episode of Follow the Money , recorded live at the State Library of NSW, Varoufakis speaks with the Australia Institute’s Ebony Bennett and Stephen Long about his proposition and his new book, Technofeudalism . This episode was recorded on Tuesday 12 March. australiainstitute.org.au // @theausinstitute Guest: Yanis Varoufakis, Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 and former Greek Finance Minister // @yanisvaroufakis Host: Stephen Long, Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor, the Australia Institute // @StephenLongAus Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director, the Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey Additional editing: Emily Perkins Theme Music: Pulse and Thrum; additional music by Blue Dot Sessions Support the research powerful interests fear: https://theaus.in/3RR3KYd See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Capitalism is dead, according to Yanis Varoufakis, the author of Technofeudalism. This week on The Futurists you’ll learn about the dramatic reconfiguration of the global economy, whereby profit has been replaced by rents and a flood of central bank money, leading to bigger bubbles and worse crises than ever before. Yanis calls this new system Cloud Capitalism. Find Yanis Varoufakis on the Web: Yanis Varoufakis home page: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/ Follow Yanis on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis?lang=en Read Yanis’s Articles on The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/yanis-varoufakis

Julia and Nick sit down for a quick chat with former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis reflecting on 50 years of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising and creating our own hope. HOW TO SUPPORT US: https://www.patreon.com/cornerspaeti HOW TO REACH US: Corner Späti https://twitter.com/cornerspaeti Julia https://twitter.com/KMarxiana Rob https://twitter.com/leninkraft Nick https://twitter.com/sternburgpapi Uma https://twitter.com/umawrnkl Ciarán https://twitter.com/CiaranDold Special Guest: Yanis Varoufakis. Support Corner Späti

Yanis Varoufakis is the former Finance Minister of Greece, professor of economics at the University of Athens, co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement , and member of the Greek Parliament. The Guardian describes him as "a motorcycling, leather jacketed former academic and self-styled rebel who took pleasure in winding up the besuited political class." He calls himself an " erratic Marxist ," and has written economics textbooks , a memoir , and popular explainers of economic ideas . But now he has produced a novel: Another Now: Dispatches From an Alternative Present . Another Now is not a typical work of fiction. It is a novel of ideas, more like one of Plato's dialogues than an airport potboiler. Varoufakis draws on the tradition of leftist utopian fiction seen in 19th century works like William Morris' News From Nowhere and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Those books tried to show readers a plausible depiction of what a socialist society might look like. In Another Now, Varoufakis is doing something similar: he shows us what our existing 21st century world might look like if the economy operated very differently and capitalism was done away with. He imagines a different timeline in which Occupy Wall Street had won and Wall Street itself had been consigned to the dustbin of history. But it's not quite right to describe this work as "utopian." Varoufakis is trying to do something extremely pragmatic: to show, using his academic training in finance and economics, that things that seem impossible are actually quite technically feasible. The attack on socialists generally is that their schemes are unworkable, and that without big banks and a class of wealthy capitalists, there could not be a dynamic, innovative economy. Varoufakis uses this story to show that this isn't true, and to explain in detail the concrete workings of a possible post-capitalist economy. If you're not used to novels that contain long descriptions of alternative banking systems, Another Now may be a challenging read. But it's exciting because it tries to seriously answer the question: "What would a realistic alternative to the capitalist economy look like?" In Varoufakis' "other now," the fruits of society's labor are not owned by capitalists, but by the people who do the work. There is some inequality, but there is a "democratic economy" in which corporate tyranny has been eradicated. Banks are public, not private, and poverty is eliminated. It is said that these days, the cramping of our imaginations has meant that it is "easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." Varoufakis invites us to imagine the end of capitalism in our own time. The medium of fiction has allowed Varoufakis to include characters who are highly skeptical about whether this economy is possible, and who have to be convinced over time to believe in it. Another Now wants to speak to critics of the socialist project, and to show that the seemingly most insurmountable obstacles to elimin

Former Greek Finance Minister, economist, and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis joins Azeem Azhar to discuss his speculative novel Another Now. In that book, he presents a world where mass organization, technological progress, and an overhaul of companies and markets have made society more equitable. Like all great science fiction, the book is as much about the present as the future. Yanis is an advocate of blockchain technology and “one person, one vote” structures, as measures to redistribute power. He and Azeem discuss how tech could change our world for the better – if we use it judiciously.They also discuss: How Yanis’s proposals for a Greek digital currency ran aground. Where COP26 fell short. How equitable technological progress could lead us to a “Star Trek”-like utopia. Further resources: How Taiwan is Using Technology to Foster Democracy – Exponential View Podcast, 2020 ‘A Central Bank Cryptocurrency to Democratize Money’ – Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate, Jul. 2021 ‘Cop26 is doomed, and the hollow promise of ‘net zero’ is to blame’ – Yanis Varoufakis, The Guardian, Nov. 2021 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What might a post-capitalistic world look like? Can money, jobs, and politics be truly democratized? Will banks cease to exist? Globally recognized economist Yanis Varoufakis dreams up an alternative reality to give us a glimpse of what such a world might look like in his new work of science fiction, Another Now . Varoufakis, the former finance minister of Greece, has spent a lifetime immersed in issues of the global economy. In Another Now, his unique economic expertise and deep understanding of debt crises are woven into a narrative filled with all the stuff of sci-fi dreams: a parallel universe; cosmic wormholes; secret technology; and DNA doubles. However speculative the fiction, none of it is as far-fetched as it might seem. In the 112th episode of Town Hall's In the Moment podcast , Steve Scher talks with Varoufakis about how a realistic, democratic alternative to our present reality is already taking shape all around us. Yanis Varoufakis was born in Athens in 1962, and is former finance minister of Greece; he is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. Prior to entering the government, Varoufakis was a professor of economics in Britain, Australia, and the U.S. for many years. Since resigning from Greece's finance ministry, he has co-founded an international grassroots movement, DiEM25, campaigning for the revival of democracy in Europe and speaking to audiences of thousands worldwide. He is the author of several international bestselling books, including Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism. Steve Scher is a podcaster and interviewer and has been a teacher at the University of Washington since 2009. He worked in Seattle public radio for almost 30 years and is Senior Correspondent for Town Hall Seattle's In The Moment podcast. Buy the Book : https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/another-now/ Presented by Town Hall Seattle . To become a member or make a donation online click here .

SK Yanis Varoufakis je grécky ekonóm, dlho pôsobil ako profesor ekonómie na univerzitách v Británii, Austrálii a USA. V roku 2015 bol ministrom financií v prvej vláde Alexisa Tsiprasa. V roku 2016 založil grassrootové hnutie DiEM-25 a v roku 2018 spolu so senátorom Bernie Sandersom medzinárodnú ľavicovú organizáciu Progressive International. Je autorom kníh Dospeláci v miestnosti (Absynt, 2019) a Talking to my daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism. Rozprávali sme sa s ním o jeho novej knihe „Another now“. Ako by vyzerala spoločnosť bez finančných trhov, obchodných bánk, korporácií a trhu práce? Je „Another now“ socio-ekonomická utópia alebo máme čo dočinenia so skutočne dosiahnuteľným konceptom? Diskusiu viedli Marek Pavlík a Tomáš Hučko. Podcast podporila Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung so zastúpením v Českej republike a Fond na podporu umenia. EN What would the society without financial markets, commercial banks, corporations and labour markets as we know them, look like? What Yanis Varoufakis, a world-renowned economist, outlines in his last book – Another now, is the image of a society after capitalism, a form of liberal socialism, which aims to eradicate inequality and rebuild the society on authentic humanism. Is Another Now a socio-economical utopia or are we dealing here with a concept, which is truly within the humankind’s reach? Another Now as a bold concept of a social change, its ambitions, intricacies and limits will be a subject of the online debate with the author, Yanis Varoufakis. Supported by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and Slovak Arts Council.

Recorded on YouTube on 13 August 2020. Yanis Varoufakis is a member of Greece’s parliament and leader of the Greek political party MeRA25, which belongs to the pan-European movement DiEM25. He spoke with Daniel Denvir. This was a Readings and Conversations event. https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.lannan.org/podcasts/varoufakis-200813-rc.mp3 In this episode, Yanis Varoufakis joined us from his home in Greece and discussed the global economy. He then engaged in conversation with Daniel Denvir, host of “The Dig” podcast from jacobin magazine. Co-presented by Haymarket Books . You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website.

On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses the state of the Eurozone and the politics of austerity with the economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, the Director of the Institute of Global Affairs Erik Berglof and the Mayor of London's Chief Economic Advisor, Gerard Lyons. Yanis Varoufakis tracks the problems of the Eurozone to its woeful design and its continued reliance on debt and austerity, rather than reform. The classicist Paul Cartledge explores the history of democracy back to its birthplace in Athens and traces the long slow degradation of the original Greek concept. Since the crisis in 2008 Greece has been in economic and political turmoil but there has also been a cultural renaissance. The academic Karen Van Dyck has brought together the best of contemporary Greek poetry by multi-ethnic poets in a new anthology. Producer: Katy Hickman Presenter: Andrew Marr.