Thursday, March 14, 2013

Yanis Varoufakis — Lest we forget: The neglected roots of Europe’s slide to authoritarianism

Europe is being torn apart by a titanic clash between (a) the unstoppable popular rage against misanthropic austerity policies and (b) our elites’ immovable commitment to more austerity. Precisely how this clash will play out no one knows, except of course that the odds do not seem to be on the side of the good. While at the mercies of this crushing uncertainty, it is perhaps useful to take a… short quiz. So, dear reader, will you please read the following ten quotations and, while so doing, try to imagine who uttered or wrote these words?
Yanis Varoufakis
Lest we forget: The neglected roots of Europe’s slide to authoritarianism

Eye-opener.

The question is not only where we want to go, but also how we are going to get there.

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