I get that, but I regard him highly for what he did in the Syriza governement. Syriza's project basically was: austerity is bad, and if we explain that to the EU, they will understand that but we will never actually break with them. When the EU made clear that they either had to break with them or throw away their entire political program, Varoufakis was the one who constructed an alternative payment system for Greece to use for when the EU would shut down all the banks and methods of payments in the country as a natural result of that break, but the leadership of syriza decided that they didn't want to see how far the contradiction actually went, threw him out of the governement and implemented the austerity that the EU wanted.
He's by no means perfect, but at a time of crisis, he made the correct decision. Some people in syriza who have better marxist credentials didn't do that.
I get that, but I regard him highly for what he did in the Syriza governement. Syriza's project basically was: austerity is bad, and if we explain that to the EU, they will understand that but we will never actually break with them. When the EU made clear that they either had to break with them or throw away their entire political program, Varoufakis was the one who constructed an alternative payment system for Greece to use for when the EU would shut down all the banks and methods of payments in the country as a natural result of that break, but the leadership of syriza decided that they didn't want to see how far the contradiction actually went, threw him out of the governement and implemented the austerity that the EU wanted.
He's by no means perfect, but at a time of crisis, he made the correct decision. Some people in syriza who have better marxist credentials didn't do that.