Downstream: Was the 20th Century a Catastrophe, or a Miracle? w/ Yanis Varoufakis

6.10.2025

Novara Media

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Economist, and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis joins Aaron to discuss his most recent book Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, a memoir about the women in Yanis’ family who raised him, and gave him his political conscience. They discuss the Hegelian Master-Slave dialectic, is patriarchy harmful to the perpetrators, as […]

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Downstream: Was the 20th Century a Catastrophe, or a Miracle? w/ Yanis Varoufakis

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