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I find Varoufakis to be dead-on in his critique, but would often like more focus on many possible post-capitalisms. The failures of ΣΥΡΙΖΑ were many, and it is
by llamataboot 6y ago
I find Varoufakis to be dead-on in his critique, but would often like more focus on many possible post-capitalisms.
The failures of ΣΥΡΙΖΑ were many, and it is easy to simply call them hopelessly naive (from one side) or abject sellouts (from the other) - and there is no doubt Greece was in a hole partially (only partially) of its own making with no good way forward. And yes, he has a bit of "I'm the most important rockstar in the room energy" but so do a bunch of VCs and founders.
The idea of moving towards market socialism with universal income and using central banking as a mechanism to reduce inequality is new-ish. There are many threads in his writings that are not about anti-capitalism, nor a return to previous types of socialisms, but of how to harness market forces to continue to generate progress while reducing their massively negative externalities.
In any case, his ideas are worth more discussion than his personality.
- cblconfederate 6y agoYeah it s kind of weird, but even your own comment focuses on his personality. In reality, the article is empty of something to discuss about. It's longish, yet, where's the argument? please enlighten. The structure is, a litany of random facts interspersed with generous self-promotion. But you may be right, the fact that i couldn't pay my servers when he shut down the banks might have something to do with it. To put things in perspective, imagine if Elizabeth Holmes was writing in the Guardian about the tyrrany of Big Pharma.
- calcifer 6y ago> It's longish, yet, where's the argument? please enlighten. I'm sorry but this really comes off as trolling. It's right there in the article. Everything after Suppose we had seized the 2008 moment... describes an alternative system that doesn't sound bad at all.
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- cblconfederate 6y agoThere's a story, no arguments why it will work. "Of course it can" is no argument. And the story is just way too far gone tbh. But it 'd be nice to hear your own criticism on the story. You 're right that almost all comments here focus on the person.
- calcifer 6y ago> There's a story, no arguments why it will work. The answer to that takes longer than a short newspaper article, which is probably why he wrote a whole book about it. I assume the answers you seek are in there.
- cblconfederate 6y agothen it seems we ran out of things to talk about :)
- calcifer 6y agoThat's fair. Perhaps we can revisit this in a future thread after reading the book :)