Yanis Varoufakis for N1: Voting is permitted precisely because it changes so little

In an exclusive interview with N1, Yanis Varoufakis discusses the crisis of democracy and a world in which citizens elect governments while key decisions increasingly remain beyond the reach of the ballot box. “Voting is permitted precisely because it changes so little,” he says, linking political powerlessness to Trump, the far right and the power of Big Tech. Speaking about Gaza, he uses the brutal economic formulation that “genocide pays” and warns of technologies being tested on Palestinians. He also discusses the European left, “cloud capital” and where, after the darkest year of his life, he still finds reason for hope. Pročitaj više