Tale zapis z Yanisom Varoufakisom v Der Spieglu, katerega povod je nemška izdaja Varoufakisovega romana “Another now”, je res smrtonosen. Ne samo, da ni uravnotežen, ampak je absolutno enostranski. Avtor zapisa je Varoufakisa pričakal na nož. Njegovo epizodo v politiki leta 2015 je označil kot utopično, njegov politični aktivizem po tem (stranki MeRA25 in DiEM25) pa kot luzerska projekta (3.44% na grških volitvah in 0.3% na evropskih volitvah). Avtor pač očitno iz dna srca ne mara ne Varoufakisa in ne levosredinske opcije. Ti oznaki sta karakteristični za ta zapis:
In hindsight, the euphoria surrounding Varoufakis at the time is almost incomprehensible. From the very beginning, he was out of his depth. He catastrophically overestimated himself and his influence, and almost nothing remained behind politically once he was gone. But the image of the Greek David fighting against the German Goliath, embodied at the time by the rock-hard German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, was branded into the collective European memory. The ascetic-seeming economist Varoufakis really did embody the hope – for a few weeks, at least – that a single, courageous Greek heart could prove stronger than all of Europe’s banks together. And since then, he has embodied the crushing of those hopes.
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His book, on the other hand, illustrates that not just he, but also the entire political left, has no vision for the future that can excite anybody. In Germany, too, the left side of the spectrum has become bogged down in the gender debate and reliving past social welfare battles. The left used to derive its energy from the promise of a better world for the many. Today, though, it can’t even describe that world, much less achieve it. How nice it would have been had Varoufakis been able to provide an escape.


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