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"You have to be willing to blow things up in order to be effective in negotiating strategy." Y. Varoufakis on "Behind the news" podcast, 2014. Varoufakis is us
by mafribe 11y ago
"You have to be willing to blow things up in order to be effective in
negotiating strategy." Y. Varoufakis on "Behind the news"
podcast, 2014.
Varoufakis is using classic populist rhetoric:
- Simplisitc notion of the cause of the problem by an international
cabal of bankers and capitalists.
- Us-vs-them, good-vs-evil manichean worldview.
- Simplistic notion of how problems can be solved.
- Strong and resolute mobilisation against "unnaturally" divisive parties and querulous organised
interest groups that want to destroy "us".
- Varoufakis cast himself as representatives of the comman person, of an betrayed and neglected Greek public.
- He's effectively capitalising on lingering anti-german sentiment, and personalising it in the figure of Schauble.
- allendoerfer 11y agoHe was dealing with power hungry career politicians and did everything to piss them off and is now wondering why they act so mad and irrational. I personally think, that Schäuble is horrible. Aside from the political anecdotes [0] I find the press conference in which he humiliated his spokesman particularly informing about his character [1]. In my mind Varoufakis is partly responsible for how things went, though. He always underestimated how fragile the EU community is and how little interest other leaders had to enrage the people at home by seemingly giving money away to Greek clowns on motorcycles. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_2.0 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8TzusgYN30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8TzusgYN30