“Although the Greek justice system’s stance on this case has provided much amusement to Greek society … this story is nonetheless dangerous,” [the European Realist Disobedience Front party] said. “The idea of putting a party leader on trial for talking about his experiences with substances many decades ago is not an accidental, innocent gaffe. It is a message from a judiciary that closes its eyes to those in power and goes after whoever refuses to bend the knee.”
What’s the HB opinion on this guy? He popped up on my YouTube, talking a lot of sense, but I seem to recall his name popping up a lot on here
He’s decent. Not really a marxist even though he declares himself as one every so often. Disagree heavily with his whole “techno-feudalism” shtick since those things aren’t historically comparable. His analysis whilst good is not really materialist but is materialist-adjacent, like Mearsheimer or Sachs. He has made an interesting documentary about his time as finance minister of Greece, although your eyes might roll to the back of your head when you hear him talk about his father. Guy was in a
Nazi concentration camp in WW2, and when the communists asked him to sign a worthless piece of paper denouncing leftism just to get released, he was stupidly stubborn and refused, yet Varoufakis makes this out as some point of unbent pride or something lol. Like damn, I wonder why the communists asked you to do that, it couldn’t possibly be because you’d be a helluva lot more useful outside than inside of there.Edit: He wasn’t in a Nazi concentration camp, but in the one established by the reactionary Greek government after the war.
