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2016-09-11 — jacobinmag.com
It is not immediately obvious why anyone is still interested in the views of failed Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, but as leader of the transnational "Democracy in Europe" movement (DiEM25), he still seems to influence some on the European left. In his latest article, he reiterates his increasingly contradictory views on why progressive politics is supposedly incompatible with leaving the European Union.
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This is no more than a reheated version of Varoufakis's disastrous "good EU" strategy, which led Greece's Syriza government to utter defeat and its supporters to ruination.
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In this sense, Varoufakis's ideology mirrors his own biography: having failed utterly to lead an anti-EU revolt among a real demos, he floats up to a lead an imaginary EU one.
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