Was The 20th Century A Catastrophe, Or A Miracle? | Aaron Bastani Meets Yanis Varoufakis

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Our guest on Downstream this week is the economist and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis. He joined Aaron to discuss his most recent book, Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, a memoir about the women in Yanis’ family who raised him and instilled in him a political conscience.

Is patriarchy harmful to the perpetrators, as well as women? Did Tony Blair do more to privatise Britain than Margaret Thatcher? Does Keir Starmer have a plan? And how does fascism end up destroying not just those it deems to be its enemies, but the motherland as well?

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00:00 Intro
02:27 Five women who inspired Yanis’ political life
09:34 The Greeks In Egypt
22:02 The Asia Minor Catastrophe
29:30 Fascism always wrecks the motherland
36:43 The root cause of fascism is capitalism
39:44 Was America ever great?
45:19 Why Yanis doesn’t take Steve Bannon’s call
50:16 Communism can save the climate
1:00:18 The problems with Starmer
1:05:25 "Tony Blair is as evil as they come"
1:09:09 The road from Thatcher to Reform
1:13:36 Feminism, the manosphere, and the master-slave paradox
1:23:44 On pornography
1:32:52 Humans need rules to live by
1:34:34 Physics or economics?
1:42:48 Collective will
1:48:14 Coming back from a bad year

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