Economist, and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis joins Aaron to discuss his most recent book Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, a memoir about the women in Yanis’ family who raised him, and gave him his political conscience.

They discuss the Hegelian Master-Slave dialectic, is patriarchy harmful to the perpetrators, as well as women? Did Tony Blair do more to privatise Britain than Margaret Thatcher? Does Keir Starmer have a plan?

And how does fascism end up destroying not just those it deems to be its enemies, but the motherland as well?

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00:00 Intro02:27 Five women who inspired Yanis’ political life09:34 The Greeks In Egypt22:02 The Asia Minor Catastrophe29:30 Fascism always wrecks the motherland36:43 The root cause of fascism is capitalism39:44 Was America ever great?45:19 Why Yanis doesn’t take Steve Bannon’s call50:16 Communism can save the climate1:00:18 The problems with Starmer1:05:25 “Tony Blair is as evil as they come”1:09:09 The road from Thatcher to Reform1:13:36 Feminism, the manosphere, and the master slave paradox1:23:44 On pornography1:32:52 Humans Need Rules to live by1:34:34 Physics or economics?1:42:48 Collective will1:48:14 Coming back from a bad year

Bonus Episode: Reflecting on Book 6