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這就是我不再愛雅尼斯·瓦魯法基斯的原因
https://ludditus.com/2024/03/01/this-is-how-i-fell-out-of-love-with-yanis-varoufakis/
2024 年 3 月 1 日
Yanis Varoufakis 最近與 DiEM25 和 MERA25 活動人士一起參加了在德國慕尼黑舉行的反戰集會。 這篇演講很可能發生在 2024 年 2 月 17 日：
這就是我不再愛雅尼斯·瓦魯法基斯的時間和原因。 無論他最近說了多少真實的話，例如 關於歐洲能源交易所、關於技術封建主義（為什麽不是雲主義？）、關於以色列和巴勒斯坦，這一次，在誇大和曲解現實方麵，太多了。
首先，他說了什麽
他首先嘲笑一個他看到舉著北約旗幟的人（那個人是真的嗎？）。 然後，他開始產生幻覺並聲稱：
● 喬·拜登是普京最好的朋友，因為廢話，所以如果你想讓烏克蘭戰爭永遠持續下去，就投票拜登吧！
● 普京是喬·拜登最好的朋友，因為普京為他提供了為什麽人們不應該投票給特朗普的最佳論據……以及永無休止的戰爭的最佳論據，這場戰爭（雅尼斯似乎被綠色洗腦了）豐富了德克薩斯州的天然氣和 石油生產商，因為你不是從俄羅斯購買石油。 （即使在他的最新著作《技術封建主義》中也可以注意到他對化石燃料公司的癡迷，這本應該與化石燃料無關。）
● 普京和拜登需要彼此。
● “誰創造了普京？ 北約！ 北約通過支持在車臣殺害 25 萬人而創造了普京。 還記得2001年嗎？ 他們支持他。 他們創造了怪物。 怪物們互相擁抱，一起跳舞。”
● “如果你是普京、如果你是拜登、如果你是澤倫斯基、如果你是內塔尼亞胡，你最糟糕的噩夢會是什麽？ 和平。 因為和平意味著你在政治上破產，同時，支持你的人——軍火工業、武器生產商——也將破產。”
● 關於那些手持北約旗幟的人：“他們相信北約提供了保護他們的盾牌、保護傘。 嗯，北約不保護我們。 北約就像黑手黨。 黑手黨製造不安全感是為了向你兜售安全感。 黑手黨製造威脅，向您兜售保護。 這是一個保護費。 北約製造了戰爭，北約創造了普京這樣的怪物，北約創造了薩達姆·侯賽因，他們創造了所有的怪物，然後為他們所有的怪物辯護，而我們，歐洲人，已經成為他們的奴隸，他們的附庸。 不存在歐洲這樣的東西。 我們是美利堅合眾國的殖民地。 我們是石油生產商、化石燃料工業、銀行業、華爾街、法蘭克福銀行家、歐洲中央銀行的殖民地。 我們在一起，德國人、希臘人、意大利人、愛爾蘭人，我們都是他們的奴隸。”
● “為什麽德國的政治派別如此參與種族滅絕？ 為什麽他們在戰爭中如此共謀？ 為什麽他們一直說“是”，無論是基民盟、基社盟、自民黨，甚至部分左翼，肯定是社民黨，肯定是綠黨？ 他們為什麽允許歐洲去工業化？ 他們為什麽允許你的國家倒退？ 讓我來告訴你為什麽。 這裏沒有陰謀。 這非常非常簡單。 如果您擁有梅賽德斯-奔馳，您確實想將您的汽車賣到美國。 美利堅合眾國有巨額赤字。 由於赤字，他們購買德國工業、中國工業、日本工業生產的所有東西，並用美元支付。 梅賽德斯-奔馳用美元做什麽？ 他們帶他們去華爾街。 他們在美國投資。 誰是他們的選民，他們關心誰？ 不是你，不是德國人民。 他們關心華爾街，他們關心華盛頓，他們關心拜登。 我們是一個殖民地，我們自己的政治階層也是同謀。”
● “聯邦議院中的所有政黨，每一個政黨，都失敗了。 他們已經讓德國落後了。 德國人民、希臘人民、法國人民都對他們的政治製度感到失望。 ……你們今天所做的不是示威，而是表演。 你們今天所做的是政治代理。 你就是民主。”
第二個主要話題：
● “當我們在加沙有 15,000 名兒童受傷且親屬無人知曉時，我晚上無法入睡，我無法想象自己的繁榮。 當不安全、不人道、非法行為在以色列土地、巴勒斯坦土地上司空見慣時，任何有道德的人都不可能在晚上睡覺並談論我們的安全。”
● “那是 1982 年，我在波蘭華沙。 我記得團結工會持不同政見者在橋上寫下了標語……。 他們引用了卡爾·馬克思的話：一個壓迫另一個民族的民族正在為自己創造機會。 卡爾·馬克思。” “今天的以色列就是這樣，俄羅斯就是這樣，土耳其就是這樣，希臘也是這樣。
歐洲經委會。 如果我們壓迫任何人或參與壓迫任何人，我們就永遠無法獲得自由。 如果一個民族受到壓迫，我們誰都無法獲得自由。”
● “我的同誌和朋友告訴我，在巴伐利亞州我不可以提及中東的兩個水域。 一個看起來像流動的水的東西——我無法說出這個詞——還有另一個不流動的物體，它很大，是地中海的一部分。 我不能說我們在這兩個水域之間需要普遍的人權和政治自由。”
● “因此，讓我們大家宣布：需要在以色列和巴勒斯坦的每一個水域之間爭取普遍自由和普遍人權！ 讓我們都為巴勒斯坦、慕尼黑、荷蘭以及所有仍在呼吸和生活的人們的光之消逝而憤怒、憤怒、再憤怒。 讓我們憤怒，讓我們奮起反抗人道主義的消亡。 及時行樂！”
現在，我的評論
毫無疑問，他的許多主張都有道理，但它們是如此原始且毫無道理。
看，我明白為什麽雅尼斯·瓦魯法基斯或多或少地傾向於共產主義，以及為什麽他似乎如此狂熱地反美。 臭名昭著的愚蠢希臘內戰結束後不久，他的父親被關進一個集中營，用於對那些不夠反共的人進行“政治再教育”。 哦，諷刺的是。 甚至在第二次世界大戰結束之前就開始的完全愚蠢的內戰，共產主義抵抗組織與盟軍控製下的更民主的力量作戰，導致了不民主的右翼政權。 在英國軍隊的屠殺之後，以及後來雙方的非法殺戮之後，一場反共迫害運動包括，一方麵強行驅逐大約三萬名兒童，他們最終流落到東歐共產主義國家，另一方麵， 另一方麵，同樣數量的兒童被政府安置在教化營（弗雷德裏卡女王的營地），其中一些將被美國家庭收養。 老瓦魯法基斯不是共產主義者，但他是希臘戰後反共、麥卡錫式政策的受害者。 這是在軍政府之前！ （1967-74 年軍事獨裁的唯一積極後果是廢除了君主製。）
令人驚訝的是，這並沒有成為雅尼斯移居英國、在那裏學習、任教以及在澳大利亞的障礙。 希臘人應該憎恨他們以前的英國壓迫者，不是嗎？ 此外，對於他在英國時的左翼激進分子來說，他 2012-13 年在 Valve 工作，研究虛擬遊戲虛擬經濟中的匯率，聽起來有點奇怪。 我們知道雅尼斯對技術很著迷，他自己也是雲封建主義的受害者，但他也幫助建立了這種廢話！
在他2015年參與希臘政府之後，在他創立MeRA25（歐洲現實不服從陣線）和DiEM25（2025年歐洲民主運動）之後，我認為他和他創立的政治運動已經政治自殺了。 它們變得完全無關緊要，我想知道那到底是什麽。 到 2025 年，他們該如何得到他們想要得到的一切？！
現在，令人驚訝的是：雅尼斯確實是一名極左激進分子！
說到重點
顯然，普京不是北約的產物。 西方集體應對 2001 年（車臣）、2008 年（格魯吉亞）和 2014 年（烏克蘭）沒有采取相應行動負責。 然而，“一切照舊”政策有著更古老的根源。 我們仍在汲取德國“Wandel durch Handel”理論的後果，該理論通過 1970 年 2 月 1 日的協議將良好的貿易關係延伸到對蘇聯的直接支持，在此基礎上，俄羅斯首次交付天然氣 1973 年 10 月，蘇聯與德意誌聯邦共和國之間的管道由德國供應給俄羅斯！ 說威利·勃蘭特、格哈德·施羅德和安吉拉·默克爾“是北約”是一種過於簡單化的怪誕說法。
當然，我們歐洲人對美國有一種不健康的依賴。 但在這方麵，德國也是罪魁禍首。 即使曆史不適合“假設”場景，這也是我的。 如果德國沒有參加第一次世界大戰，留下奧匈帝國的痛苦，如果他們沒有把列寧送到俄羅斯，就會發生兩件事：第一，不會有對德國提出極其沉重賠款要求的凡爾賽條約，因此不會有 希特勒； 第二，布爾什維克不會處決俄羅斯帝國羅曼諾夫家族，而且很可能我們不會有斯大林。 此外，沒有第二次世界大戰，沒有裏賓特洛甫-莫洛托夫，沒有大屠殺，沒有冷戰，沒有歐洲分裂。 最重要的是：歐洲的一半沒有蘇聯軍隊，另一半也沒有美國軍隊。 沒有北約！
現在，盡管北約有種種缺點，美國也有種種缺點，但我們仍然需要北約。 另外，如果拜登是壞人，我們是否應該這樣做？
希望特朗普再次當選總統嗎？ 你是認真的，還是你吃的蘑菇有問題？
“我們是美利堅合眾國的殖民地。” 可能吧。 “我們是石油生產商、化石燃料工業的殖民地”——現在，這是令人厭惡的。 我們確實從德克薩斯州采購，如果不是從俄羅斯采購，那麽還有什麽替代方案呢？ 要轉變為“100%電力”社會，利用 Greta Thunberg 的有機無二氧化碳屁和 Yanis Varoufakis 的核堅果產生的電力？ 這家夥對“化石燃料黑手黨”的癡迷是荒唐的。
“這是一個保護費。 北約製造了戰爭，北約製造了像普京這樣的怪物，”等等。 天哪，分析得多麽巧妙啊！ “我們是石油生產商、化石燃料工業、銀行業、華爾街、法蘭克福銀行家和歐洲央行的殖民地。” 你忘了倫敦金融城了，夥計。 我知道你更喜歡虛擬貨幣，甚至是加密貨幣（如果政府使用的話），但是嘿，你應該是左派！ 都怪他們吧！
我非常讚賞雅尼斯對巴勒斯坦的看法（我在這裏提到了他的兩次幹預），但他的其他政治立場正在損害他的可信度。
至於據稱團結工會引用的卡爾·馬克思的名言：“壓迫另一個民族的民族正在為自己創造機會”，我無法辨認。 我能找到的最接近的是弗裏德裏希·恩格斯（Friedrich Engels）的《關於波蘭的演講》（1847年），其內容如下：“一個民族不能在獲得自由的同時繼續壓迫其他民族。 因此，如果波蘭沒有從德國的壓迫下解放出來，德國的解放就不可能實現。” 我想這就是他的想法，可能是從希臘語翻譯過來的。
我不確定巴伐利亞政府禁止的是什麽，我也不記得我在哪裏提到過（我猜在這裏）許多有識之士共同的觀點：德國在實施其“不再”的過程中 承諾，認為以色列是“定義上的受害者”，無論以色列做什麽。 因此，德國正式支持巴勒斯坦（加沙，但也包括約旦河西岸）的種族滅絕，因為被洗腦的德國政客不想讓自己有用自己的頭腦思考的奢侈！ 毛澤東出版了一本紅皮書，其中包含了所有中國人所需要的答案； 卡紮菲有他的綠皮書； 二戰後的德國有一個白藍頁，上麵寫著：“由於大屠殺，以色列永遠是對的，即使它不是。 沒有什麽可討論的； 向前走！”
但我必須寫一篇關於雅尼斯·瓦魯法基斯（Yanis Varoufakis）的類似聲明，這位聰明的經濟學家成功地超越了嘲笑。 這些天極左派出了什麽問題？ 梅朗雄瘋了，米歇爾·昂弗雷（皮埃爾·約瑟夫·蒲魯東的社會主義自由反馬克思主義創始人，Donc pas du tout d’extreme-gauche）變得奇怪了，現在雅尼斯……
我不會相信雅尼斯·瓦魯法基斯的判斷。 再也不。 這是一個令人沮喪的結論。
想到我要給他寫一封很長的電子郵件，他是一個能夠理解與經濟學相關的任何東西的人，為一本新書建議主題......
This is how I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis
https://ludditus.com/2024/03/01/this-is-how-i-fell-out-of-love-with-yanis-varoufakis/
March 1, 2024
Yanis Varoufakis, together with DiEM25 and MERA25 activists, recently took part in an anti-war rally in Munich, Germany. This speech is likely to have taken place on February 17, 2024:
This is when and why I fell out of love with Yanis Varoufakis. No matter how many true things he has said lately, e.g. about the European Energy Exchange AG, about Technofeudalism (why not Cloudalism?), about Israel and Palestine, this time, too much is too much when it comes to exaggerating and misinterpreting reality.
First, what he said
He started by mocking a person that he saw holding a NATO flag (was that person even real?). Then, he started to hallucinate and claim:
● That Joe Biden is Putin’s best friend, because crap, so if you want the war in Ukraine to continue forever, vote Biden!
● That Putin is Joe Biden’s best friend, because Putin gives him the best argument why people shouldn’t vote for Trump… and the best argument for the never-ending war, which (Yanis seems to be green brainwashed) enriches the Texan gas and oil producers, because you’re not buying from Russia. (His obsession with fossil fuel companies can be noticed even in his latest book, Technofeudalism, which should have had nothing to do with fossil fuels.)
● That Putin and Biden need one another.
● “Who created Putin? NATO! NATO created Putin by supporting the killing of 250,000 people in Chechnya. Remember, in 2001? They supported him. They created the monster. Monsters are hugging each other and dancing together.”
● “If you were Putin, if you were Biden, if you were Zelenskyy, if you were Netanyahu, what would your worst nightmare be? Peace. Because peace would mean that you become politically bankrupt and, at the same time, that people who support you—the arms industry, the weapons producers—they will become bankrupt.”
● On the alleged people holding a NATO flag: “They believe that NATO offers a shield, an umbrella, that protects them. Well, NATO doesn’t protect us. NATO is like the Mafia. The Mafia creates insecurity to sell you security. The Mafia creates threats to sell you protection. It’s a protection racket. NATO creates the wars, NATO creates the monsters like Putin, NATO created Saddam Hussein, they created all the monsters that then justified all their monstrosities, and the fact that we, Europeans, have become their slaves, their vassals. There is no such thing as Europe. We are a colony of the United States of America. We are a colony of the oil producers, of the fossil fuel industry, of the banking sector, of Wall Street, of the Frankfurt bankers, of the European Central Bank. We together, Germans, Greeks, Italians, Irish, we’re all together their slaves.”
● “Why is the political spectrum in Germany so complicit in the genocide? Why are they so complicit in the wars? Why do they keep saying yes, whether they are the CDU, the CSU, the FDP, even in parts of the left, definitely the SPD, definitely the Greens? Why are they allowing Europe to deindustrialize? Why are they allowing your country to fall back? Let me tell you why. There is no conspiracy here. It’s very, very simple. If you own Mercedes-Benz, you really want to sell your cars to the United States of America. The United States of America has a big deficit. Because of that deficit, they buy everything the German industry, Chinese industry, Japanese industry produce, and they pay them in dollars. And what does Mercedes-Benz do with the dollars? They take them to Wall Street. And they invest in America. Who is their constituency, who do they care about? Not you, not the people of Germany. They care about Wall Street, they care about Washington, they care about Biden. We are a colony, with the complicity of our own political class.”
● “All the political parties, every single one of them, that are in the Bundestag, have dropped the ball. They have left Germany down. The people of Germany, the people of Greece, the people of France, have been let down by their political system. … What you’re doing today is not a demonstration; what you’re doing today is political agency. You are democracy.”
A second major topic:
● “I can’t sleep at night, I cannot think of my prosperity, when we have 15,000 children that are injured without known relatives in Gaza. There is no possibility for any ethical person to sleep at night and to talk about our security when insecurity, inhumanity, illegitimacy are the order of the day in the land of Israel, in the land of Palestine.”
● “It was 1982, and I was in Warsaw, in Poland. And I remember that the Solidarno?? dissidents had written a slogan on the bridge …. they had quoted Karl Marx, and it said: A people who oppresses another people is forging its own chance. Karl Marx.” “That is the case for Israel today, it is the case for Russia, it is the case for Turkey, it is the case for Greece. If we oppress or are complicit in the oppression of anyone, we can never be free. None of us can be free, if a people are (sic) oppressed.”
● “I have been told, by my comrades and friends, that in the state of Bavaria I am not allowed to mention two bodies of water in the Middle East. Something that looks like water that is flowing—I can’t say the word—and another body which is not flowing, which is large and is part of the Mediterranean. And I am not allowed to say that we need universal human rights and political freedom between these two bodies of water.”
● “So, let us all proclaim: the need to fight for universal freedoms and universal human rights between every body of water in Israel and in Palestine! Let us all rage, rage, and rage again for the dying of the light(?) in Palestine, in Munich, in Holland, and everywhere there are people who are breathing and living. Let us rage, let us rise up against the dying of humanism. Carpe diem!”
Now, my comments
Undoubtedly, there are elements of truth in many of his assertions, but they’re so primitive and so brutally unreasonable.
Look, I understand why Yanis Varoufakis is more or less leaning towards communism, and why he seems to be so rabidly anti-American. Shortly after the infamously stupid Greek Civil War, his father was imprisoned in a camp used for the “political re-education” of those who were not anti-communist enough. Oh, the irony. The utterly moronic civil war that started even before the end of WWII, with communist resistance organizations fighting the more democratic forces under Allied control, has led to undemocratic right-wing regimes. After a massacre by the British troops, and later, after unlawful killings on both sides, an anti-communist persecution campaign included the forced removal, on the one hand, of some 30,000 children who ended up in Eastern European communist countries and, on the other hand, of a similar number of children being put in indoctrination camps by the government (Queen Frederika’s camps), some of them to be adopted by American families. Varoufakis senior wasn’t a communist, yet he was a victim of the anti-communist, McCarthy-like post-war policies in Greece. And this was before the military junta! (The only positive consequence of the 1967–74 military dictatorship was the abolition of the monarchy.)
Surprisingly enough, this wasn’t an impediment for Yanis to move to Britain, to study there, to teach there, and also in Australia. Greeks were supposed to hate their former British oppressors, were they not? Also, for the left-wing militant that he was while in Britain, his 2012–13 employment with Valve, in which he researched the exchange rates within the virtual economy of virtual games, sounds a little bizarre. We know that Yanis is fascinated by technology, being himself a victim of the Cloud feudalism, but he also helped build this nonsense!
After his 2015 involvement in the Greek government, and after and his founding of MeRA25 (European Realistic Disobedience Front) and DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement 2025), I thought he and the political movements he founded committed political suicide. They became utterly irrelevant, and I wondered what the fuck was that. How were they supposed to get whatever they wanted to get, by 2025?!
And now, the surprise: Yanis really is a far-left militant!
To the point
Obviously, Putin is not a creation of NATO. The collective West is responsible for not having acted accordingly in 2001 (Chechnya), 2008 (Georgia), 2014 (Ukraine). The “business as usual” policy has, however, older roots. We are still drawing the consequences of the German “Wandel durch Handel” theory, which extended good trade relations up to a direct support of the USSR through the agreement of February 1, 1970, on the basis of which the first deliveries of natural gas from the USSR to the Federal Republic of Germany took place in October 1973 on pipelines supplied to the Russians by Germany! To say that Willy Brandt, Gerhard Schröder, and Angela Merkel “are NATO” is a grotesque oversimplification.
Then, of course, we Europeans have an unhealthy dependence of America. But here too, Germany is the culprit. Even if history doesn’t work with “what if” scenarios, here’s mine. If Germany had not entered WWI, leaving Austria-Hungary with its pains, and had they not sent Lenin to Russia, two things would have happened: one, there would have been no Treaty of Versailles with extremely heavy reparations demands on Germany, hence no Hitler; and two, the Bolsheviks wouldn’t have executed the Russian Imperial Romanov family, and, most likely, we’d have had no Stalin. Furthermore, no WWII, no Ribbentrop-Molotov, no Holocaust, no Cold War, no division of Europe. Most importantly: no Soviet troops in half of Europe, no American troops in the other half. No NATO whatsoever!
Right now, with all its faults, and with all the faults of the United States, we need NATO. Also, if Biden is the bad guy, are we supposed to wish Trump to become president once again? Are you serious, or are you on questionable mushrooms?
“We are a colony of the United States of America.” Possibly. “We are a colony of the oil producers, of the fossil fuel industry”–now, this is obscene. We do purchase from Texas, if not from Russia, but what are the alternatives? To switch to a “100% electric” society, using the electricity produced using Greta Thunberg’s organic and CO2-free farts, and Yanis Varoufakis’ nuclear nuts? This guy’s obsession with the “fossil fuel Mafia” is grotesque.
“It’s a protection racket. NATO creates the wars, NATO creates the monsters like Putin,” and so on. Oh my, what a great finesse of the analysis! “We are a colony of the oil producers, of the fossil fuel industry, of the banking sector, of Wall Street, of the Frankfurt bankers, of the European Central Bank.” You forgot the City of London, buddy. I know you prefer the virtual currencies and even crypto, if used by governments, but hey, you’re supposed to be on the Left! Blame them all!
I thoroughly appreciate Yanis’ take on Palestine (I mentioned two of his interventions here), but his other political positions are undermining his credibility.
As for the quote from Karl Marx allegedly used by Solidarno??, “A people who oppresses another people is forging its own chance,” I couldn’t identify it. The closest I could find belongs to Friedrich Engels, from his Speech on Poland (1847), and it reads as follows: “A nation cannot become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations. The liberation of Germany cannot therefore take place without the liberation of Poland from German oppression.” I suppose this is what he had in mind, possibly translated from Greek.
I’m not sure what it was that the Bavarian government has banned, and I don’t remember where I’ve mentioned (I guess here) an opinion shared by many knowledgeable people: Germany, in the implementation of its “never again” promise, considers Israel to be “the victim by definition,” regardless of what Israel does. So Germany officially supports the genocide in Palestine (in Gaza, but also in the West Bank) because the brainwashed German politicians don’t wish to allow themselves the luxury of thinking using their own heads! Mao issued a Red Book with all the answers ever needed by any Chinese; Gaddafi had his Green Book; post-WWII Germany has a white-blue page that reads: “Because of the Shoah, Israel is always right, even when it isn’t. There is nothing to be discussed; move along!”
But I have to write a similar statement about Yanis Varoufakis, the intelligent economist who managed to go beyond ridicule. What’s wrong with the far left these days? Mélenchon is nuts, Michel Onfray (originairement adepte du socialisme libertaire antimarxiste à la Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, donc pas du tout d’extrême-gauche) has become strange, and now Yannis…
I will not trust the judgment of Yanis Varoufakis. Never again. That’s a disheartening conclusion.
And to think that I was going to write him a long email, him being someone who could understand anything related to economics, to suggest topics for a new book…
