Yanis Varoufakis is the Former Minister of Finance of Greece and a leftist icon. I never thought I would be able to interview someone like this..Live everyda...
So far I haven't read his technofeudalism point as washing away the faults of capitalism. I do think that in general, capitalists would rather be lords than capitalists. I think he's saying capitalism is beginning to create feudalist conditions by its nature.
But maybe he was more explicitly whitewashing capitalism in some other writing or speaking, I could see it because that would mesh with the first half.
it's not an analysis grounded in a dialectical historical/material outlook so it serves to distract from that essentially and imo even runs a soft defense for capitalism by saying we live under a secret worse thing when actually we live under imperialist capitalism, that is the problem and all marxist have known this for a century or more.
So far I haven't read his technofeudalism point as washing away the faults of capitalism. I do think that in general, capitalists would rather be lords than capitalists. I think he's saying capitalism is beginning to create feudalist conditions by its nature.
But maybe he was more explicitly whitewashing capitalism in some other writing or speaking, I could see it because that would mesh with the first half.
it's not an analysis grounded in a dialectical historical/material outlook so it serves to distract from that essentially and imo even runs a soft defense for capitalism by saying we live under a secret worse thing when actually we live under imperialist capitalism, that is the problem and all marxist have known this for a century or more.