Цитаты из книг — Янис Варуфакис

Если фашизм чему-то нас и научил, так это нашей восприимчивости к демонизации стереотипов и уродливой притягательности таких эмоций, как чувство праведности, а также страх, зависть и отвращение, которые они в нас разжигают. В нашем технофеодальном мире интернет приближает вас вплотную к внушающему страх и отвращение…

Чтобы получить прибыль в будущем, ты должен произвести вложения сейчас, отдать деньги в долг производству. Ты как волшебник, у которого вещи исчезают и потом вдруг появляются из ничего! Но в отличие от сказок, где добрые волшебники всегда побеждают злых, экономика – это страшная сказка. В ней злые волшебники начинают…

In Homeric terms, the social democrats had become the era’s lotus eaters. As they gorged themselves on financialisation, they became intellectually soft

You once told me that finding something timelessly beautiful to focus on, as you did by choosing to lose yourself among the relics of ancient Greece, is our only defence from the demons circling our soul.

One need not be a radical critic of our society to see that the right to a bit of time each day when one is not for sale has all but vanished. The irony is that the liberal individual was snuffed out neither by fascist Brownshirts nor by Stalinist guards. It was killed off when a new form of capital began to instruct…

The war in Ukraine prompted the United States to make moves which diverted considerable money flows from the dollar-based payments system to a yuan-based system run by Chinese cloud capital.

On 14 August 2020, a revolution took place inside the walls of the People’s Bank of China. Following six years of painstaking research, Beijing’s central bank rolled out a digital yuan.

Everyone knew that the US government could confiscate the lot at any time, but no one believed Washington would ever dare to, because such a move would deter anyone from ever stashing their wealth within the US-controlled dollar payments system again. <…> It was the first time in capitalist history that a major central…

На этой новой политической сцене социальная демократия невозможна. У нас больше нет противостояния труда и капитала, позволявшего социал-демократическому правительству играть роль арбитра и принуждать обе стороны к компромиссу. Вместо этого у нас есть центр и альт-райты, и те и другие на поводке у нового правящего класса,…

China’s cloudalists acquired a 360-degree view of their users’ social and financial life. <…> WeChat users did not have to exit the app to make a payment. While streaming music, scrolling social media, messaging their families, they are able to use the same app to send money to anyone who have downloaded WeChat and opened…

Non-American central banks suddenly had no alternative than to use dollars instead of gold as reserves to back the value of their currency. The dollar began to resemble an … IOU. After the so-called Nixon Shock, the global financial system was, effectively, backed by IOUs issued by a hegemon who could decide what the…

Recall how until the Nixon Shock of 1971, any non-American with large quantities of dollars could exchange them at will for gold owned by the US government at a fixed price of $35 per ounce. <…> To prevent losing it all, on 15 August 1971, Nixon told the world that they would no longer exchange foreign-held dollars for…

This explains the report of Swiss bank UBS, published in October 2020, which found that billionaires had increased their wealth by more than a quarter (27.5 per cent) between April and July of that year, just as millions of people around the world lost their jobs or were struggling to get by on government schemes.6

Only one such interface belonged to no other mogul or hyper-corporation and was, therefore, available for purchase: Twitter.

Brilliant and flawed, combining rare engineering talents with ridiculous public displays of ostentation, Musk is our era’s Thomas Edison

The cloudalists don’t need to deploy bailiffs to confiscate or to evict. Instead, every vassal capitalist knows that with the removal of a link from their cloud vassal’s site they could lose access to the bulk of their customers. And with the removal of a link or two from Google’s search engine or from a couple of…