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Yanis Varoufakis has EU Stockholm syndrome – Against the EU and DiEM25

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Hi comrades - this is sort of an annoyed half response to a fawning tl;dr news video on Yanis Varoufakis' latest malarkey, partly just me remembering this guy exists and finding out that he's even more trash then my memory of him. Sources and links Background on the Greek Debt Crisis and YV’s time in government https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN07114/SN07114.pdf Background on Greek Euroscepticism, the debt crisis ect. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263395718770599 KKE 2014 statement https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/Statement-of-the-Central-Committee-of-the-KKE-on-the-stance-of-the-KKE-in-the-EU-parliament/ KKE 2020 article – (Highly recommended) https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/Union-of-Monopolies/ On the socialist position on the EU

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Hi comrades - this is sort of an annoyed half response to a fawning tl;dr news video on Yanis Varoufakis' latest malarkey, partly just me remembering this guy exists and finding out that he's even more trash then my memory of him.



Sources and links



Background on the Greek Debt Crisis and YV’s time in government

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN07114/SN07114.pdf



Background on Greek Euroscepticism, the debt crisis ect. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263395718770599



KKE 2014 statement

https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/Statement-of-the-Central-Committee-of-the-KKE-on-the-stance-of-the-KKE-in-the-EU-parliament/



KKE 2020 article – (Highly recommended)

https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/Union-of-Monopolies/



On the socialist position on the EU

https://www.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/wiki/index/about-faq



Translated Statement from the Hungarian Worker’s Party (VERY Good read IMO)

https://www.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/comments/nxn38e/german_attack_on_veto_rights_and_whats_behind_it/



Regarding the EU’s position on Poland’s media law

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/19/the-slow-but-steady-strengthening-of-europes-values/



DiEM25’s cringe manifesto

https://diem25.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/diem25_english_long.pdf



Cringe tl;dr news video explaining the DiEM25, which initially annoyed me into making this video (Warning: Pro-EU trash channel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXPVxCk-e0&t=410s



In defense of Communism against YV, SYRIZA and DiEM25

http://www.idcommunism.com/2017/07/tsipras-varoufakis-loyal-servants-of.html



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Chapters



00:00 Introduction



02:25 The imperialist EU



9:35 Against DiEM25



19:48 Conclusion
Yanis Varoufakis
An accidental economist Let me begin with a confession: I am a Professor of Economics who has never really trained as an economist. But let’s take things one at a time.

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