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DiEM25 03/20/16 (Sun) 23:46:56 No.608498

So the forums are open: http://www.diem25.org/forum/

What do you guys think? Can it ever be more than a vague alliances of assorted reformist leftists?

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:07:10 No.608527

good thread. chomsky and zizek signed for support. at the least it's isolating the big issue in the EU. I think it's generally good.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:09:11 No.608533

does anyone feel like Varoufakis is trying to start a cult?

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:09:24 No.608534

>>608498

>democratize Europe

I don't really believe in this top-down approach. Maybe we should try to democratize the region, then the country and then the continent. The bigger the scale the harder it is to implement democracy.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:11:16 No.608545

>>608533

He's trying to become a meme alright.

Is he actually a decent economist?

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 00:25:01 No.608582

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>>608545

yes

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 01:29:43 No.608779

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>>608534

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=varoufakis&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 01:49:53 No.608822

>>608533

I would join his cult

DiEM25 03/21/16 (Mon) 01:50:56 No.608823

>>608545

Hes actually respected among economists from what I can gather, which is pretty hard for leftists.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 01:56:59 No.608835

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>>608545

>yfw Yanis and Bernie are acquiring meme magic to fight Trump, avatar of Kek, elder god of memes

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 02:13:11 No.608846

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>>608835

>Bernie brings glorious revolution to the US

>Yanis becomes Minister of Economy; Zizek, Minister of Toilet Designing; Chomsky, Minister of Onomatopoeias

Azusaposter 03/21/16 (Mon) 03:17:46 No.608919

>>608498

Making an account RN!! ITS TINE FOR A NEW INTERNATIONALE!!

Azusaposter 03/21/16 (Mon) 03:29:00 No.608939

>>608533

A cult of what exactly? Cult of Personality?

Frankly I don't think Yanis Varoufakis would do that, I mean he's infallible he'd never do something so heinous, he's the Left's greatest negotiator right now and pretty much a god when it comes to economics, frankly If he started a commune or something I'd glady sign up and pledge my life to him, since I trust our lord and savior with my life. I think its akin to blasphemy to suggest that Lord Varoufakis is trying to start a cult, he's trying to save us from the apocalypse, and I'll do anything he says and so should you. /s

In all seriousness he's using his celebrity status for a good cause, the Right is so full of personality cults and meme magic, its time we punch back.

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 05:24:07 No.609069

Should we flood it?

Azusaposter 03/21/16 (Mon) 06:13:07 No.609102

>>609069

/flood/ implies we are dismantling it, i prefer the term occupy.

Shitposter4Communism 03/21/16 (Mon) 09:28:06 No.609216

YOU CAN'T RUCKUS THE VAROUFAKIS!

Anonymous 03/21/16 (Mon) 11:56:49 No.609292

Sound kinda cool mate.

>>609216

Would be better:

CAN'T DIS VAROUFAKIS!

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 05:38:27 No.613355

>>608823

been reading his book Modern Political Economics, it seems he borrow much from the tradition of post-Keynesians / neo-Marxists with rich historical context, but brings his experience with game theory as well as awareness to its limitations.

>>608545

depends on who you ask. If you ask a mainstream neoclassical economist, they would consider post-Keynesian economics to be "the left-wing equivalent of Austrian economics" (e.g. NYT on Galbraith: https://archive.is/pd9w9) but neoclassical economists are not ones for subtlety. In MPE, Varoufakis deconstructs the ideology (meta-axioms) behind mainstream economics (a mathematicized religion) and discusses their philosophical and historical beginnings (such as in Leibniz's equalibria).

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 06:28:08 No.613421

>>613355

The article doesn't say that.

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 07:56:18 No.613536

>>613421

no but one lolbert fb friend who is a grad student in econ did say that.

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 08:13:48 No.613541

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>>608498

the dude is a shitstain

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 08:57:03 No.613595

>>613536

ok, but you linked an article as an example

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 08:57:53 No.613596

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>>613541

WE ARE CRASHING THIS SHIP

Anonymous 03/23/16 (Wed) 09:41:10 No.613634

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>>613541

RTFM (M = manifesto), it's either create a functioning EU through political revolution, or descend into nation states and fascism where political revolution will be delayed once again. Our best shot for now is to repurpose existing institutions to serve the benefit of mankind, only then can we have the tools to build socialism.