A conversation with Yanis Varoufakis on post-capitalism and the future of democracy | DiEM25

On December 15 Yanis Varoufakis, MeRA25 MP and DiEM25 co-founder, spoke at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. In his talk, he covered post-capitalism, the Green New Deal and the future of democracy in Europe and beyond. A must watch!

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[Sky-hzcc]

A Greek in Turkey...how appreciative we are of you all to speak in English. Such paradigm changing ideas. Thank you.

[fiori]

Had other plans for the evening, but I guess I will watch Yanis now

[vincesiciliano]

Brilliant... we need more people like Yanis. All over the world.

[ljube]

Great man with great heart, who help us understand and see. Appreciation and respect!

[buggerall]

This man has really been speaking to the people. When he explains something you can see him reconsider his explanation and expand on it. Very informative.

[thomassimmons]

Yanis is the Last of the Spartans!
Atheist or no, God bless this Noble soul!!!

[greenleaf]

This is such an excellent video. Capitalism for the poor, Socialism for the rich.

[RockMacDonald]

I am also very appreciative that these talks are given in English.

[brianwheeldon]

A great talk. Very interesting relationships working between cooperatives, ownership shares, citizens' assemblies, and transnational parties. Thanks Yanis Varoufakis

[RenaissanceShe]

Fantastic video - just the analysis I needed to listen to post election. Thank you. Would like to add Yanis, that at approx 1.14 in, your definition of universal basic income assumes that universal basic income will cause jealousy between the person getting up at 6am to go to work and the person not working. Universal means just that - every person gets a basic income, say, £1k per month. Earnings from work are on top of that, so the person who chooses to stay at home, perhaps painting because that is their talent, has income of £1k per month. However, the person who chooses to get up at 6am retains their basic income of £1k per month PLUS whatever they earn on top of that. A system like this would allow women to raise their own children instead of paying someone else to do it, allow people to consider career changes, allow people to care for sick relataives. A whole host of reasons why UBI could be better for society and arguably help to push up productivity?...

[josephinestabel]

Mr Varoufakis, high IQ and EQ 👈 Thanks for sharing this.
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[reggiebald]

Yanis speaks from a lot of learning and knowledge; truth bombs!

[lorrainewest]

This man imparting his knowledge informs and empowers those who are not exposed and wholely dependent on economy such as me. The ordinary person, the masses he mentions being duped and dependent by events totally out of my hands and theirs..

[dulynoted]

"When the very few make profits, it's their profits. When they have losses, society has to give them money." 👈🏼☝🏼THAT. That, is it in a nutshell. And it has to change.

[colaturkalures]

Legendary talk. Tesekkur ederim dostlar.

[kelvinhbo]

Yanis looks more like a professional UFC fighter than an economist.

[johannesbekker]

"We need economic ties with all but allegiance with none" (Thomas Jefferson)
Why were there widely different nations right from the start ? To keep the spirit of competition alive ?

[nightoftheworld]

1:52:50 “How do we do it? Not by means of nation state based parties, they are finished. They are inward looking, they have a tendency toward nationalism, they play the game of one working class against another working class” [...] 1:55:06 “Transnationalism genuine internationalism in other words, in action, which while respecting totally the primacy of class (because this is what we are trying to do: to create class solidarity in action, not only in spirit) while preserving that accommodates national pride, national cultures. You know I am Greek I‘m not going to lose my affinity with Greek culture, Greek language, Greek literature because I am transnational and an internationalist. Similarly with our Turkish friends, our British friends and so on—how to combine all this in a movement for change? It’s very early days yet... It’s either this or going back to nation state based political parties that we’ve tried and with which we have failed.”

[michaeljoseph]

PROF. VAROUFAKIS PROVES THAT TO BE DEEMED A GENIUS, AS HE CERTAINLY IS, REQUIRES BUT A SINGLE TRAIT. HONESTY.

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A suggestion to the answer given to the question at 1:16:06 - Instead of non-voting shares the voting rights could be transferred (in equal parts or by workhours) to the employees of the given company.