The funky, radical academic is Yanis Varoufakis, the new and suddenly famous Finance Minister of Greece. Varoufakis is a self-styled 'erratic Marxist', and an essay that was compiled from a lecture he gave at the Subversive Festival in 2013 on European capitalism is gaining attention this week in light of the debt negotiations. In the essay, Varoufakis describes his intellectual struggle with Marxism and his attempt to reconcile parts of it with his desire to see the capitalist eurozone stay together.
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