Yanis Varoufakis on why the world needs a new Non-Aligned Movement

On Friday, January 27, 2023, DiEM25 co-founder and MERA25 leader Yanis Varoufakis gave a speech at the Havana Congress on the New International Economic Order, about the need for a new Non-Aligned Movement to "end the legalised robbery of people and Earth fuelling climate catastrophe."
The co-founder of DiEM25 was in Cuba on an official visit upon an invitation from the Havana government and a key topic of discussion on his trip was the creation of a New Non-Aligned Movement that will aim for a New International Economic Order.
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[@roxannamarinak3156]

This man knows what is going on and his facts. He is educating the world to the change we need to make!

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i founded a "non-aligned" human rights movement 20 years ago. its called "equalism." equalism rejects the fascism, elitism, delusions, extremism, corruption, insanity and the corporate technological police-state now embraced by the global ruling elite on BOTH SIDES! but guess what? although i've suffeciently notified the ruling elite on the left and right of this new philosophy i've been completely ignored and margainalized by the fascist leaders now in control of BOTH SIDES! go figure. welcome to your future as the slaves to your global corporate masters.

[@BTin416]

This may not have hundreds of millions of views, but its one of the most important speeches of the modern time that has been given. Bravo, comrade Varoufakis!

[@jhonkhan8153]

Hmmm

[@jamesliner6328]

😊😊

[@ArgueWithTheMajority]

I believe this will either go down in history as one of the most important speeches ever given or be totally buried, so nobody may find it, as capital still reigns over the post-apocalyptic wasteland. I implore all comrades download it and distribute it.

[@Thewonderingminds]

Discern demagoguery, PLEASE....

[@DV-dt9sq]

I am glad that thereis Cuba in this world! We all should help keeping her independent! 💪✊♥️

[@taranehahmadi-parker1412]

Long live Cuba , and this lecture by yanks is brilliant ✊✊✊❤️

[@diosamurcielaga9418]

Viva Cuba hoy y siempre!

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i founded a "non-aligned" human rights movement 20 years ago. its called "equalism." equalism rejects the fascism, elitism, delusions, extremism, corruption, insanity and the corporate technological police-state now embraced by the global ruling elite on BOTH SIDES! but guess what? although i've suffeciently notified the ruling elite on the left and right of this new philosophy i've been completely ignored and margainalized by the fascist leaders now in control of BOTH SIDES! go figure. welcome to your future as the slaves to your global corporate masters.

[@coopsnz1]

Cuba fk

[@wdanielperez6859]

Cuba is an authoritarian regime. Let’s not romanticize either

[@jensfischer2065]

What a great and honest speech you would hardly hear from a politician in office.

[@johngalt3566]

You won't hear these kinds of things from Western politicians, as most Western countries are just corrupt oligarchies masquerading as liberal democracies.

[@lizhang5772]

It is people like Yanis who still bring us hope. Respect from China.

[@sbarros78]

Haha, there is no hope in your country. You are slaves of your communist system.

[@zantecarroll4448]

yes yanis and progressives international and diem25 gives me hope, i grew up in England/Greece/Italy/Mexico/US can you comment in more length? would love to hear an individual chinese perspective

[@toi_techno]

Cuba had a revolution that was stolen by the Castro family (the Chinese had theirs stolen by the so-called "CCP"). Dictatorship IS NOT a feature of communism. Communism should be hyper democratic rather than a crony system of family and friends getting the plum jobs and making themselves rich. George Orwell described it best, "some are more equal than others".

[@zantecarroll4448]

@@toi_techno yes...animal farm ..i read that when i was twelve ..i never recovered democracy is still a kracy ..rulership..have you read kojin karatani's, Isonomia..no rule..?

[@coolspace2786]

@@sbarros78 aka dude is slave of "we lie, we cheat and we steal"

[@golondrina56]

Real love doesn't trash the planet. Gracias. Abrazos desde México.

[@irenejohnston6802]

Verdad. Revelation 11:18;. Isaiah 45:18. Ezekiel 38:23. Daniel:2:44. No podemos. El Creador. Solo El traera unidad mundial y paz.

[@joeldwest]

​@@irenejohnston6802 Not an excuse for us to not do the right thing and change our world to Communism. God is never an excuse

[@stevensimpson2625]

What a speech 👍

[@jaredleemease]

Thank you Yanis.

[@adrianosverko6601]

This is great! Remember that Yugoslavia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, India were all part of the non-aligned movement.

[@vthilton]

Sharing, Justice, and Peace for All.

[@tha7225]

This guys brilliant!

[@davidjonkers870]

With you Yanis, with you Cuba.............NZ

[@piotrtroja]

Great lecture! Yanis THANK YOU!

[@d.b.4093]

Danke, Yanis! Carpe DiEM! ✊️

[@anthonyyoung9810]

Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ Γιάννης! Καλύτερες ευχές σε όλους τού κόσμου.

[@WolfRevolt]

Greetings to the great Cuba and Yanis

[@rolfsautter4186]

Yanis Varoufakis his best talk ever

[@louiswoodhill3627]

Now look at Peter Zeihan's stuff to find out what is actually going to happen.

[@abelsantamaria4694]

Truly we need it.

[@JacobGrammGren]

Brilliant!

[@headsails]

Yay 🎉Yanis in Cuba. Life is good! ❤

[@SvalbardSleeperDistrict]

Yanis is incomparable as always - a mix of competency in modern economics, visions for advancing the cause of saving all of us from capitalist dystopia through technology, and the good old revolutionary spirit of those who won so many gains from the ruling classes over the past century and a half.

[@MD-md4th]

😂

[@SvalbardSleeperDistrict]

@@MD-md4th If you actually have anything of value to say, you can try that instead of this clownery.

[@googlesmostwantedfrog147]

You are delusional Get help

[@mattbba8451]

It can't be overstated how important this is. I have shared it.

[@Lobo-666]

Total support!

[@vichitvideo6041]

Yanis is very knowledgeable, conscientious and capable of an independent way of thinking. The world needs more people like him so that there can be real peace.

[@pakau]

yes i can't believe they aloud him to be inside the government. didn't last long tho.

[@toss13]

​@@pakau don't be surprised it won't happen again. The level of propaganda against him in Greece is beyond belief, most Greeks nowadays unfortunately consider him as a joke.

[@the_local_bigamist]

Full support! Viva cuba.

[@dago87able]

Viva indeed, and down with its autocratic, antidemocratic, repressive regime.

[@_Nyx_Raven_]

Cuba is a totalitarian regime which oppresses their citizens

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Si!

[@waynemcmillan5970]

Thank you Yanis for a great talk.

[@denisemorton56]

Solidarity from this Scot. With work it will be Solidarity from Scotland.

[@robertheap2911]

This man is a brilliant, thoughtful economist and a real politician. His talks and lectures, are always interesting and educational. They never fail to make sense. After so much failure by progressives in the past. The time has finally come and we all have to be ready. Well said Yanis👏Diem25 👍

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i founded a "non-aligned" human rights movement 20 years ago. its called "equalism." equalism rejects the fascism, elitism, delusions, extremism, corruption, insanity and the corporate technological police-state now embraced by the global ruling elite on BOTH SIDES! but guess what? although i've suffeciently notified the ruling elite on the left and right of this new philosophy i've been completely ignored and margainalized by the fascist leaders now in control of BOTH SIDES! go figure. welcome to your future as the slaves to your global corporate masters.

[@robertheap2911]

@@cjmacq-vg8um I understand where your coming from. And agree with you entirely . The problem is , that the mainstream political parties have all been infiltrated . Even friends and colleagues of mine ,to the right in politics , are fed up with what’s going on. What we need in the uk and I said this many years ago is a complete political and economic overhaul of the system. Starting with PR. And not single vote transfer. It has to be a universal vote. It doesn’t matter where in the country you live or what constituency. Every vote for a party , results in the proportion of seats. Then we can establish new parties even for the centre right as well as the progress left. Then consign the failed ones to the political dustbin

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

@@robertheap2911 ... i'm an american and i haven't found anyone in any country who's satisfied with the direction humanity is going. yet, at the same time, they all participate in and even praise the corporate police-state that now rules their daily lives. everyone complains but no one is willing to "sacrifice" anything to make things any better. i founded equalism to give people a third choice rather than the fascism being offered, now, by the left and right. but i can't get a word in edgewise. i'm silenced and censored by the elite on both sides and their followers. humanity is headed for a dystpoian future. its, in fact, already there. i see little hope for my species.

[@robertheap2911]

@@cjmacq-vg8um I’m English, your American, but the problem we face , along with rest of Europe and most of the world is the same. I follow what goes on in the USA. And i particularly follow the likes of Chris Hedges and Richard D Wolff. Reading between the lines they say that the American economy and the colonial foreign policy is going to come crashing down . And in the UK , this current conservative government is the worst we’ve had ever. They have moved so far to the right, behaving like a fascist dictatorship. But what has happened here now is a massive resurgence in Trade Union power and nearly all the people ( left and right) are supporting them, to the dismay of the Tory government. Both , Richard Wolff and Chris Hedges have said this is the way for forward for Americans too. I wish you well and good luck 🤞🙌

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

@@robertheap2911 ... yes, the whole world suffers from the same capitalist gangsterism. humanity has been ruled by gangsters for over 6000 years. regimes that call themselves "socialist" aren't socialist. they're fascist just like the capitalist countries. my question is - how many more times is humanity going to repeat the same mistakes and expect different results? just how much longer is humanity going to play this rigged game of divide and conquer the ruling elite play to maintain its corrupt power over us ALL? equalism exposes and REJECTS this rigged divide-and-conquer game. we equalists say - its time to do things differently because what we've been doing over the last 6000 years HAS FAILED in every possible way.

[@stefanosias7422]

This brilliant man's voice brings with it a rich spring of renewal, promise, and new hope. If we ever achieve a new economy model in the world, perhaps a new political model as well, and a new future for our collective species, surely Yanis Varoufakis and the ideas of his and those around him, will play a great part in accomplishing this. It is not often I swallow a whole half hour speech broadcasted on youtube in one sitting, in one breath, unable to take my eyes and ears and mind away from it, but this is certainly the case here! I stand humbled and admiring, with a deep bow of respect and sentiment of goodwill and applause. Bravo!

[@cobaltbomba4310]

Cuba knows what's like to be target of imperialism but still survive and thrive many decades later. Kudos to Cuba for this program!

[@coopsnz1]

Yet millions leave yearly there no middle class under communism

[@aarnehalen1686]

How would you define a thriving country if Cuba is among them?

[@ver4135]

​@@aarnehalen1686less infant mortality than the richest country on earth

[@shakdidagalimal]

@@ver4135 LMAO

[@superdog797]

Cuba. Where surgeons literally moonlight as taxi drivers because they make more money as taxi drivers than performing surgery. Cuba. Where experienced physicians make $80 per month. Cuba. Where physicians who practice abroad have to send their foreign earnings BACK to the Cuban government - even when not in their home country, they can't retain the wealth they earn. There’s a Cuban saying: “We live like poor people, but we die like rich people.” Well, in a country where you don't have political freedom or cars (per capita car ownership per 1000 people in Cuba: 67; per capita car ownership per 1000 people in USA: 908), of course you're going to be more proud of how you get to DIE than how you get to live. "Using the ratios found for other countries, corrections were proposed to the statistics [infant mortality] published by the Cuban government: instead of 5.79 per 1000 births, the rate stands between 7.45 and 11.16 per 1000 births." Source: Cuban infant mortality and longevity: health care or repression? Health Policy and Planning, Volume 33, Issue 6, July 2018, Pages 755-757,

[@iliask3834]

Greetings to our comrades in Cuba, Solidarity from Greece!!!

[@TennesseeJed]

Thanks for not kicking down on the working class folks of America as we are captive too.

[@dgonzalez9898]

Great Yanis, thank you for being in Cuba, my country. A world free of the tirany of capital, a world without wars of pillage and imperialism, were globalization leads to happier and more expansive lives rather than anxiety and precariousness. With people and environment first. It's not a dream, and it it is indeed a dream, it's the dream. Hasta la victoria siempre

[@annesaunders3851]

Insightful and optimistic. Thank you Yianis.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i founded a "non-aligned" human rights movement 20 years ago. its called "equalism." equalism rejects the fascism, elitism, delusions, extremism, corruption, insanity and the corporate technological police-state now embraced by the global ruling elite on BOTH SIDES! but guess what? although i've suffeciently notified the ruling elite on the left and right of this new philosophy i've been completely ignored and margainalized by the fascist leaders now in control of BOTH SIDES! go figure. welcome to your future as the slaves to your global corporate masters.

[@ibb1622]

Just brilliant! Greetings from 🇨🇵.

[@chriskeene241]

Anyone who fights for Julian Assange like yanis does is a true champion. Thank you

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Thanks Yanis, much appreciated.

[@squallp]

Great speech. Regards from Bosnia and Herzegowina

[@neganthropocene]

Thank you Yanis... you are honestly one of the last hope for my generation.

[@maxsweetman6341]

My hope is that this movement gains momentum

[@71avis]

Yanis & Noam are some of my hero's, however in my environment it's difficult to even talk about them.

[@rdean150]

His call to action in the last 5 minutes or so was spot on. If the past 7-8 years have taught us anything, it is the power of what he calls "cloud capital" to steer societies and change the world, for better or for worse. I think many of us did not recognize just how powerful these nascent technological platforms were until they were harnessed for destructive ends. Those of us who were paying attention were shocked at how effective these tools are at influencing the opinions and behaviors of vast populations, and we suddenly recognized the power being wielded by those who saw the dark potential sooner than we did. But he is absolutely right - leveraging cloud capital effectively in the coming years will be a make-or-break requirement for the large-scale social changes he is proposing. Doing it well will be the key to success, and ignoring or using it poorly will likely guarantee failure.

[@peterkingoina3626]

O😊

[@NG-dc2pk]

Dear Yanis , you should launch DiEM25 in India as well !

[@nnbg8000]

Why?

[@clumsydad7158]

put so elegantly, concisely, and brilliantly by yanis once again ... twer it all were so simple, as the vision is clear

[@37Dionysos]

The Greek vote of "No More!" in 2015 was an astounding democratic moment (against all "advice" from media), and Varoufakis at least walked out rather than betray the people. If Greece had held on, they would have won (as Schaubel told YV privately later), and Greece would be 1000% better off already. All power to the international workers' movement with Diem25.

[@LevisH21]

"international workers" as if the working class people from Italy give a shit about workers in Pakistan or Brazil. or Greek working class gives a shit about Turkish working class. this is the nonsense about socialism and why fascism/nazism from an economic standpoint makes more sense to implement in a country. a pro-workers government in a country should ONLY care about the workers of its country. nothing else. economics isn't the only thing that matters anyways. local culture and traditions are also important in a county's society. it is part of a country's identity and heritage.

[@37Dionysos]

@@LevisH21 Too bad you're so poorly informed about international worker cooperations. Must be why you're wallowing in fascist fantasies and believe workers have no common interests across borders: I doubt your fantasy features you near/at the bottom of slaves and cannon fodder. Well, if business can make German union workers "compete" with Chinese wage-slaves in a race to the bottom, the opposite force of global cooperation can/must act too. Welcome to Diem25.

[@LevisH21]

@@37Dionysos good luck your socialist fantasies as well. it also is so hilarious that supposed socialist countries of the world like China and Vietnam have willingly abandoned socialism in order to become essentially state capitalist countries. and you should also explain why Cuba which is another socialist country trades goods/services with capitalist countries. this should have been a blasphemy for a serious socialist to even consider doing business with capitalist countries. it's complete hypocrisy. just like how a conservative politician might say he is against gay marriage or gay rights but is hilariously cought himself having sex with a gay prostitute in some hotel room in Budapest or Prague. lol 🤣

[@37Dionysos]

@@LevisH21 Lots of socialist countries trade with capitalists, many are threatened like Cuba or caused to crash as in Central/South America due to CIA arm-twisting (so they must be a "threat" to somebody), and both China nor Vietnam retain all kinds of features that Western fascists call socialist. Now you can see how the cartoons that feed you actually lead you away from reality. What's that tell ya? Enjoy your minimum wage and your weekend: thank a socialist for both.

[@LevisH21]

@@37Dionysos you should bloody thank me because I pay taxes in order for lazy fucks like yourself to live on welfare checks like a parasite. I just love the fact you accuse me of somehow supporting the CIA. and hilarious that the CIA is the boogyman of all socialists when the KGB or any other socialist secret service organization have done just as many crimes against humanity as the CIA. try harder

[@ludmilaivanova1603]

I completely agree with the Athens Declaration: no more wars in the world! And I support and share the admiration for Cuban people.

[@lyndamacpherson8366]

Brilliant! Watching from 🇨🇦

[@Leo-zi8oc]

Keep what yanis said It's important He knows what he is saying He is one of the smart cookies

[@aminaragin]

The financial / social economic system he advocates must become Humanity's Unified Goal to achieve asap.

[@bertanelson8062]

YES, and each of us can implement these ideas RIGHT NOW where we live, with our actions.

[@theresanolan1157]

@@bertanelson8062 Yes indeed....

[@jerryvelasquez9080]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

[@hy4970]

Dear Mr. Varoufakis, you are by definitions "Brilliant " and your desire to lead people to a better financial system is to be appreciated, never the less, if you will turn your head back, you will realize that the followers your trying to mobilize for your idea are sitting comfortably in air conditioned or heated living room's or SUVs, enjoying the fruits of a system your criticizing, most of the "comfortable" ones would push the like button on your KZbin, but to my understanding, people would not change the comfortable system they are having, with your "Brilliant idea" which have not being tested yet. It is mostly hungry and despert people who are willing to fight for an idea. Good luck. The world needs inspiration.

[@kontaris1]

Thank you Yanis for this excellent speech. I am grateful for our team locally both globally that all we have a purpose. Local to Global and Global to local. We have to frustrate technology to go faster and more faster to an other point of globe to other.

[@hussar6347]

This word salad indicates, that You might be a little dizzy by the speed Yanis is throwing all this BS on your head!?

[@hussar6347]

@@kontaris1 This and the previous comment make no sense at all! Are you Chinese?

[@hussar6347]

@@kontaris1 Ο Γιάνης (με ένα Ν), σου έχει κάνει πλύση εγκεφάλου με αυτό το BS και ακόμα και στα ελληνικά γράφεις σαν να είσαι Κινέζος!Τα έχεις μπερδέψει όλα και έχω αρχίσει να ανησυχώ (πάρε Ασπιρίνη, άνοιξε το παράθυρο...και... τα μάτια σου!!!).

[@tukity]

Actually China doesn't need to be pushed. "Common prosperity" is prominently featured in its recent 5 year plan. Chinese gov has already implemented reform policies in education, tech and finance sectors to combat capitalists from capturing and monopolizing the market.

[@ArgueWithTheMajority]

I believe this will either go down in history as one of the most important speeches ever given or be totally buried, so nobody may find it, as capital still reigns over the post-apocalyptic wasteland. I implore all comrades download it and distribute it.

[@drenoc007]

Accurate. Heavy hitting. Honest.

[@jorisniggemann]

Completely on point. Let’s pull it off!

[@mourdebars]

What a speech! Vivid, true and powerful.

[@EdWood2006]

Bravo comrade Varoufakis! Great speech.

[@timtam2126]

Such a great mind Yanis

[@lucfrombelgium5435]

A classroom with ONLY ONE BULLY is sure to destroy the class

[@cheri238]

Thank you, Yanis for all your efforts and hard work to help our world grow in truth, justice, and understanding ❤️

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i founded a "non-aligned" human rights movement 20 years ago. its called "equalism." equalism rejects the fascism, elitism, delusions, extremism, corruption, insanity and the corporate technological police-state now embraced by the global ruling elite on BOTH SIDES! but guess what? although i've suffeciently notified the ruling elite on the left and right of this new philosophy i've been completely ignored and margainalized by the fascist leaders now in control of BOTH SIDES! go figure. welcome to your future as the slaves to your global corporate masters.

[@Stret173]

I cried.

[@MrRikko951]

this man makes me happy. It is good to know that there is an alternative... and people who are smart enough to understand and explain how the systems work. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK of educating the world.

[@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns]

The worst thing about this is that at least during the Cold War, there were two sides which countries could choose to be non-aligned with. Now there's just US/EU/UK/NATO/G7 hegemony and you can non-align with that, but they'll just say "you're either with us or you're against us."

[@joncumberbatch852]

He's the smartest social economic mind on the world stage

[@TonyTouch23]

Check out Michael Hudson as well.

[@evanhudson881]

This gives me hope for the future.

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

We are headed places

[@kinggentiaustria5333]

Poly Ourea!!! Super Speech 🎤!!!! 🤝🤝🤝👍👍👍👍

[@LovisAnderson]

Thanks for sharing!

[@sbarros78]

Clown words are free.

[@0150Tricia]

I have tremendous admiration for Yanis. Thank you Yanis.

[@vincentadika8562]

❤. Insightful. ❤.

[@peternolan5374]

What happened? He mentioned making Amazon pay and the video skipped? Excellent speech otherwise. Thank you Yanis. Proud to support Diem25

[@geoffreynhill2833]

I noticed that too. Worrying...🤔

[@edstoffregen3623]

What time did this happen?

[@conallmorrison2379]

31:03 - there’s a bit missing?!

[@geoffreynhill2833]

@@conallmorrison2379 I wondered if Yanis had been "edited" for some reason...🤨

[@mmiilleennkkoo]

✊🏽

[@eliascommentonly4652]

🇪🇺🇬🇷👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑🇪🇺🇬🇷👋 I try to understand socialists but I cant I prefer old monarchy 🇪🇺🇬🇷🇪🇺🇬🇷👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👋👋

[@tonyclayton6975]

It’s not a difficult concept. Organising human society to produce the goods and services we need for the benefit of all rather than the few that for the last 40 years have enacted the biggest transfer of wealth and power up to themselves from ordinary people. It’s pretty much how humans cooperatively engaged for millennia. Capitalism has been a relatively short experiment, neoliberalism even shorter and much more damaging, as Yano’s described in his speech. What’s your alternative solution (genuine question)?

[@TheEricrya]

Excellent! Thank you!

[@user-jy9mq1lx3m]

Keep going Yanis! Well done. You made the correct answer and direction. I hope this could wake up people.

[@burden9809]

This man has the understanding that is so much needed by those that would lead. RANKED CHOICE VOTING 🗳️ NOW!

[@markk8423]

This is the most insightful and optimistic speech I have listened to in many years. I will try to share this as much as I can and I wish to express my deep appreciation that you have shown me a whole series of connections I never understood

[@andrewgumra852]

Great intellectual, economis,phillosophet,or snd geniud

[@aibekesenov2289]

Sehr gut dargestellt

[@BakedUp]

He is a truly AWAKENED one. He knows the INSIDES of what is really going on behind the curtains of the many governments and the many connected societies of the governments. He is proposing a solution to the oncoming problem.

[@baconbob3752]

Great politician. workers of all countries unite!

[@zampone]

"the exodus of dollars was the foundation of American hegemony" at 9:35 needs to be learned and memorized

[@Glower22x4]

Yanis for World Prime Minister.

[@coopsnz1]

Plz no there no home owners in cuba

[@Stret173]

Замечательно!

[@jmgonzales7701]

russkie

[@Stret173]

@@jmgonzales7701 Yes, we do exist.

[@michaelwicks933]

It's quite impressive that Varoufakis has reached the interpretation he has; there's so much muddle in-between the socialist thought of the early 20th century and his fully developed understanding of contemporary imperialism. He pulls together threads from such very different fields to create this clear and incisive story.

[@srbislavn]

First conference of non aligned movement was in Belgrade..... Big conference hall is under reconstruction and it would be very nice to open it with new nonalignment summit....

[@raokumaran6187]

👍🏿💪🏿🇲🇾

[@rikmarx107]

I aprove of Yaniks proposal !!

[@foxtrotcalifornia5492]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MISTER VAROFAKIS I HOPE AND PRAY FOR GOD FUTRE

[@oneeleven9832]

The book Confessions of an Economic Hitman is a good read to go along with this speech ✅

[@ThisIsNotaUniversity]

As engaging as it was, this speech flies in the face of political reality. Why? Because less than a year ago the Cuban government started selling dollars!

[@1ico007]

I loved Yanis's comment about new international economic movements that should not include theocratic regimes. It should not tolerate any abuse of human rights by governments that just because of their anti-imperialist frontage for any other reasons contrary to non-aligned movements such as having a backwards religious ideology (Iran) or for competition (Russia). As I understood, The ultimate movement's goal stands for fair economic interactions that benefit the masses and eventually end human suffering where it is a lifetime struggle for the majority of society to provide the basic necessities and seek security, a peaceful place to live and be free from warmongers and exploitations of the large cooperations.

[@dago87able]

should it be taken as a direct message to the cuban regime then? I think it should, if he’s consequent with what he says

[@jokerwick]

@@dago87able What Cuban regime? The autocratic US-backed Cuban regime was banished to Florida decades ago..

[@dago87able]

@@jokerwick the CURENT autocratic cuban regime, obviously

[@jokerwick]

@@dago87able Smartest Gusano 🐛🤡 Banished to the Florida swamp 🐛🤡

[@37Dionysos]

Please add Israel's sham racist theocracy to your Iran/Russia list

[@quentinr6261]

Yanis gives me hope.

[@tasfa10]

I was always a bit skeptical of Yanis, wondering whether he was more of a cool socdem than anything else. Hearing him refraining from misprizing actually existing socialism and speaking favorably about revolution was a very pleasant surprise.

[@_Nyx_Raven_]

I am skeptical of him being a tankie because he just praised Cuba and China basically, two totalitarian hellholes with barely any rights or freedom , actually existing socialism isn't a thing.

[@tasfa10]

@@_Nyx_Raven_ Right... Let's fall for red scare propaganda and decry any real and moderately successful attempt at socialism that actually achieved something, getting essentially stuck in a continuation of the capitalist dystopia potentially into total annihilation while we wait for the perfect fairytale socialism that's about to happen at any moment.

[@_Nyx_Raven_]

@@tasfa10 liberal democracies have achieved more than any previous or current "actual existing socialism" , I am not talking about perfectionism here, I am talking bare minimum, democratic worker control and ownership of the means of production (1 worker, 1 share, 1 vote) and adherence to basic human rights and international law, (like not doing a genocide which many "actually existing socialist" countries have done) basic freedoms are and weren't guaranteed like freedom of assembly and free speech, they also lacked and still lack any form of democratic representation with free and fair elections (which should be a bare minimum for a liberal society let alone a socialist one, which should require more than that including banning lobbying and improving democracy with ranked choice voting more referendums etc etc which none have done and living in these countries is worse than living in America or EU liberal democracies) don't get me started on the meager wages they are being paid, a very strong oligarchy stronger than even some liberal democracies (which again by socialist standards you shouldn't have an oligarchy at all and atleast pay livable wages , heck even some liberal democracies pay somewhat livable wages, shouldn't we go beyond that and actually redistribute wealth, instead of pretending everything is fine and that "actually existing socialism" isn't worse in every metric compared to social democratic liberal democracies and in some cases even centre-right lead liberal democracies.

[@Redactedlllllllllllll]

@@_Nyx_Raven_ I guess if you ignore all the negatives and market externalities.

[@_Nyx_Raven_]

@@Redactedlllllllllllll I was doing a comparison there, in absolute terms both "actually existing socialism" and liberal democracies and fascist countries all suck , but the devil lies in the details, in comparison , life under liberal democracies is superior to "actually existing socialist countries" and fascist countries, if we compare fascist countries to "actually existing socialist countries " we don't see many inherent differences thus I would say its rational to call totalitarian regimes such as north Korea, Cuba, vietnam, soviet union, Laos, historical "communist" and contemporary China, etc etc as fascist.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

It appears that suggestions of an end to Capitalism, seem to be Verbotten? The ability to view nations that now complain of a growing inability to satisfy economic demands, appears to display most of the inhabitants of the Planet, as not being served by Capital? Yanis is a brave Man to spread the word about the facts.

[@Synerco]

Amazing speech!

[@GetFochD]

Great speech, greetings from the Netherlands!

[@sbarros78]

Great speech but you moved to Netherlands for work when he closed the banks in Greece right? Haha

[@GetFochD]

@@sbarros78 I moved to the Netherlands because the economic crisis fucked Spain in the ass and because my mother is from there. I don't know what you're tryng to insinuate

[@skyfoxrinoasfr4778]

@@sbarros78 Because ECB closed the banks off Greece and there is a lawsuit against it. But you are pusi and you have not DNA of Greeks ancient mtfks (leonidas, kolokotronis) etc.

[@abosh1618]

@@sbarros78 έτσι τέτοια άσχετα να λέτε, τόσο respect οι έξω και εδώ να αναμασατε ότι λένε τα media. Κάτσε εσύ στο καναπέ να σου παίρνουν την πρώτη κατοικία τώρα 🙄

[@Chichi-rd9my]

​@@sbarros78 Are you talking about the Europeans and what Great Britain did to Greece? Janis Varoufakis was the ex finance minister in that time. He didn't want to sign the bail out The troika is a term used to refer to the single decision group created by three entities, the European Commission (EC), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It was formed in the aftermath of the European debt crisis and this actually European Union in disguised as an ad hoc authority with a mandate to manage the bailouts of Cyprus, Greece, Ireland and Portugal, in the aftermath of their prospective insolvency caused by the world financial crisis of 2007-2008. Janis Varoufakis couldn't fight along with the big bullies from the West.

[@tenforward7485]

I am against all bad things. I am for all good things.

[@natasakukic7631]

👏👏👏

[@raphaelzimmerman3016]

Wow!

[@anthonylawton5363]

Brilliant. The closest politician to a Philosopher King (Plato's Republic) as I have ever seen!

[@salmanzafar86]

Wow great speech

[@SagittarianArrows]

For we wrestle NOT against flesh and blood, but against, against Powers, against the #RulersOfTheDarkness of this world, against Spiritual Wickedness in #HighPlaces. - Ephesians 6.12

[@irenejohnston6802]

1 Corinthians 4:4; Daniel 2:44;. John 15:17-19.