From what I've been able to gather from a few of his talks, he's a professor of economics who served as Greek Finance Minister during the debt crisis and describes himself as a Marxist but not an ML. He's an excellent speaker, is critical of the field of economics, dunks on people who cry about China giving loans to developing countries, and just generally seems to have good takes. His big topic is that he thinks capitalism is in the greatest crisis of its history, and the left is totally unprepared.
he has actually gone on record and identified himself as an anarcho-syndicalist with Chomsky as his prime influence. His "marxism" is simply his field of academic economy
Individualist moron "left wing" economist who occasionally says some good things but online leftists should REALLY stop trusting him as much as they do. I can get into great detail why he's pretty lame, I'll just leave you with his quote about how during COVID class struggle has to be put on hold because neither the workers nor the capitalists make money. His party seems vague because it is, and it mainly functions as his vehicle to promote himself instead of trying to figure out how to work with the multitude of leftist organisations and parties that already exist in Greece.
I think his scholarship is of merit, although I'm not an economist so I can't be sure, but a
respectable Marxist economist whom I follow has a similar opinion of him.
His political goal is to save capitalism from itself, that is what he literally wants. He doesn't believe the radical left is ready to seize power so it's best to create a more humanistic capitalism. I don't know why leftists still prop him up, maybe just starry eyed admiration because of his elitist academic presence.
Because he was already an accelerationist in his youth. He talked about living in London at the time and how he thought Thatcher would galvanize the left against her and instead she broke the back of the working class and set them back decades.
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From what I've been able to gather from a few of his talks, he's a professor of economics who served as Greek Finance Minister during the debt crisis and describes himself as a Marxist but not an ML. He's an excellent speaker, is critical of the field of economics, dunks on people who cry about China giving loans to developing countries, and just generally seems to have good takes. His big topic is that he thinks capitalism is in the greatest crisis of its history, and the left is totally unprepared.
Prior to that, he worked at Valve Software analyzing Team Fortress 2's hat economy. Not kidding
Yanis good confirmed
actually it's about ethics in gaming economics
he has actually gone on record and identified himself as an anarcho-syndicalist with Chomsky as his prime influence. His "marxism" is simply his field of academic economy
Individualist moron "left wing" economist who occasionally says some good things but online leftists should REALLY stop trusting him as much as they do. I can get into great detail why he's pretty lame, I'll just leave you with his quote about how during COVID class struggle has to be put on hold because neither the workers nor the capitalists make money. His party seems vague because it is, and it mainly functions as his vehicle to promote himself instead of trying to figure out how to work with the multitude of leftist organisations and parties that already exist in Greece.
I think his scholarship is of merit, although I'm not an economist so I can't be sure, but a respectable Marxist economist whom I follow has a similar opinion of him.
I've heard both good things and bad things about his scholarship.
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Maybe. I am curious.
His political goal is to save capitalism from itself, that is what he literally wants. He doesn't believe the radical left is ready to seize power so it's best to create a more humanistic capitalism. I don't know why leftists still prop him up, maybe just starry eyed admiration because of his elitist academic presence.
Because he was already an accelerationist in his youth. He talked about living in London at the time and how he thought Thatcher would galvanize the left against her and instead she broke the back of the working class and set them back decades.