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Podcast: Novara Media
Episode: Downstream: Was the 20th Century a Catastrophe, or a Miracle? w/ Yanis Varoufakis
Description: Economist, and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis joins 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 gave him his political conscience.
They discuss the Hegelian Master-Slave dialectic, 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 we...