Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up
Janis Varufakis (Yanis Varoufakis): Kapitalizam će da pojede demokratiju - ukoliko ne podignemo glas
Yanis Varoufakis thinks we need a radically new way of thinking about the economy, finance and capitalism. Full bio
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taking it for granted.
uzimajući je zdravo za gotovo.
of flowers that it really is,
of our society's furniture.
društvenog nameštaja.
as an intransigent given.
kao o beskompromisnoj datosti.
begets inevitably democracy.
neizbežno stvara demokratiju.
and his great imitators in Beijing
i njegovi veliki podražavaoci iz Pekinga
to have a flourishing capitalism,
imati procvat kapitalizma,
in our neck of the woods,
u našem kutku sveta,
while I was representing Greece --
dok sam predstavljao Grčku -
that our nation's democratic process --
da demokratski procesi naše nacije -
that were being implemented in Greece.
koja se primenjuje u Grčkoj.
vindication of Lee Kuan Yew,
opravdanja za Li Kvana Jua
friends of mine who kept telling me
koji mi stalno govore
if it ever threatened to change anything.
čim postane pretnja bilo kakvim promenama.
for an authentic democracy.
za autentičnu demokratiju.
to join me in believing again
da mi se pridružite u ponovnoj veri
that we can dispense with democracy --
da možemo bez demokratije -
boisterous democracy.
žestoka demokratija.
bi bila protraćena.
an interesting paradox
na jedan zanimljiv paradoks
our economies as we speak.
that has been casting a long shadow
koja baca veliku senku
Europe, the whole world.
Evrope, čitavog sveta.
njenu bliznakinju.
and to corporations,
i korporacijama,
that can generate the incomes
koje bi proizvodile dobiti
the mountain of debts
da eliminišete planinu duga
that humanity desperately needs,
što je čovečanstvu očajnički potrebno,
da vam ponudim dva broja.
in Britain and in the Eurozone,
Britaniji i Evrozoni
3.4 trillion dollars
3,4 biliona dolara
and so on and so forth.
in the same countries,
u istim tim državama,
during the same period
and bidding up house prices.
berzama i uvećava cene nekretnina.
and a mountain of idle cash
i planina ležećeg novca
failing to cancel each other out
koji ne uspevaju da se ponište
operation of the markets.
in America, in Japan and in Europe
u Americi, Japanu i Evropi
reproduce it by not investing --
ne investiraju i tako stvaraju istu -
by the prophecy of the oracle
proročanstvom iz proročišta
his son, would kill him.
da ga ubije njegov sin Edip.
da unapređuje živote,
all these technologies,
for saving planet Earth.
za spas planete Zemlje.
that democracy might be the answer?
da bi demokratija mogla da bude rešenje?
in which the free and the poor,
excluded too many.
je izuzimala mnoge.
of course, the slaves.
of ancient Athenian democracy
antičke atinske demokratije
about ancient Athenian democracy,
the right to free speech,
pravo na slobodu govora,
to political judgments
concerning matters of state.
koje se tiču državnih pitanja.
democracy didn't last long.
nije dugo trajala.
it burned out quickly.
brzo je sagorela.
do not have their roots in ancient Athens.
nemaju korene u antičkoj Atini.
was focusing on the masterless citizen
usredsređivala na slobodnog građanina
on the Magna Carta tradition,
su zasnovane na tradiciji Velike povelje,
a charter for masters.
bila povelja za gospodare.
only surfaced when it was possible
je tek isplivala s mogućnošću
from the economic sphere,
političke i ekonomske sfere,
fully in the political sphere,
u potpunosti na političku sferu,
from the political sphere,
od političke sfere,
epic struggle between the two,
epske borbe između njih,
colonizing the political sphere,
kolonizovala političku sferu,
are not what they used to be?
zašto političari nisu što su nekad bili?
has degenerated.
in government today and not in power,
može da bude u vladi, ali ne na vlasti
from the political to the economic sphere,
iz političke u ekonomsku sferu,
with capitalism.
neslaganju s kapitalizmom.
a population of predators,
the prey that they must feed on,
plena kojim se hrane
and cannibalizing the political sphere
i kanibalizovala političku sferu
that it is undermining itself,
da podriva samu sebe,
to invest the cash of their corporations.
da ulažu novac svojih korporacija.
in taking the demos out of democracy,
u uklanjanju demosa iz demokratije,
of human resources
and economic spheres
političke i ekonomske sfere
with a demos being in control,
except without the slaves
had that idea 100 years ago
su imali ovu zamisao pre 100 godina
from the Soviet debacle
iz sovjetskog debakla
will the working poor be reempowered,
siromašni radnici biti ponovo osnaženi,
of brutality and waste.
brutalnosti i traćenja.
with automata, androids, robots.
automatima, androidima, robotima.
and the political spheres are separate,
i politička sfera razdvojene,
and the political spheres,
ekonomske i političke sfere,
by democratizing the reunified sphere,
demokratizacijom nanovo ujedinjenih sfera,
a surveillance-mad hyperautocracy
u hiperautokratiji opsednutoj nadzorom
look like a documentary.
izgleda poput dokumentarca.
whether capitalism will survive
da li će kapitalizam preživeti
it is spawning.
by something resembling a Matrix dystopia
nešto što liči na distopiju iz "Matriksa"
to a Star Trek-like society,
društvu iz "Zvezdanih staza",
exploring the universe
u istraživanje univerzuma
about the meaning of life
o smislu života
high tech agora.
visoko tehnološkoj agori.
instead of the Matrix-like dystopia?
umesto distopije iz "Matriksa"?
na nivou preduzeća,
from one job to another,
s jednog posla na drugi,
to work at at that time --
to work in it at that moment.
onih koji u tom trenutku rade u njoj.
from capital, from profits,
iz kapitala, iz profita,
of wage labor becomes obsolete.
postaje prevaziđen.
who own but do not work in the company
koji poseduju firmu, ali ne rade u njoj
but do not own the company;
between capital and labor;
između kapitala i rada;
investment and saving;
između investicije i štednje;
gomilanja blizanačkih vrhova.
political economy,
have a free-floating exchange rate,
imaju slobodno-plutajuću stopu razmene,
global, digital currency,
digitalnom monetom,
by the International Monetary Fund,
Međunarodni monetarni fond,
is denominated in this currency --
izražena u ovoj moneti -
to be paying into a common fund
da će uplaćivati u zajednički fond
to the country's trade deficit,
trgovinskom deficitu te zemlje
to invest in green technologies,
za ulaganje u ekološke tehnologije,
where investment funding is scarce.
gde su investicioni fondovi oskudni.
John Maynard Keynes proposed
što je Džon Majnard Kejns predložio
the technology to implement it.
da bi ovo primenili.
of a reunified political-economic sphere.
političko-ekonomske sfere.
empowered individuals,
osnaživanje pojedinaca,
to the dustbin of history
to imagine an authentic democracy.
da zamislimo autentičnu demokratiju.
into a Matrix-like dystopia?
u distopiju nalik Matriksu?
that we shall be making collectively.
koji ćemo kolektivno da napravimo.
da ga napravimo demokratski.
in your bios as a libertarian Marxist.
kao libertarijanskog marksistu.
of Marx's analysis today?
any relevance in what I just said,
ono što sam upravo ispričao,
the political and economic is --
politike i ekonomije -
is going to create
refers to as secular stagnation.
označava kao sekularnu stagnaciju.
from one part of the world,
iz jednog dela sveta u drugi,
not only our democracies,
ne samo naše demokratije,
that keen on liberal democracy.
naklonjen liberalnoj demokratiji.
then Marx is absolutely relevant.
onda je Marks apsolutno relevantan.
you are not thinking, OK?
ne razmišljate, u redu?
philosopher kind of thing to say --
što bi rekli grčki filozofi -
you mentioned Singapore and China,
pomenuo si Singapur i Kinu,
about how the West looks at China.
o tome kako Zapad gleda na Kinu.
degree of hypocrisy.
o velikom stepenu licemerja.
we have a semblance of democracy.
imamo naličje demokratije.
as I was saying in my talk,
kao što sam rekao u govoru,
where all the action is --
u kojoj se sve događa -
in the 19th century.
bliža Britaniji iz 19. veka.
liberalism with democracy --
liberalizam s demokratijom -
to je poput Džona Stjuarta Mila.
it's like John Stuart Mill.
skeptical about the democratic process.
sumnjičav po pitanju demokratskih procesa.
is a very similar process
je veoma sličan proces
during the Industrial Revolution,
tokom Industrijske revolucije,
from the first to the second.
in the 19th century,
ono što je Zapad radio u 19. veku
are wondering about your experience
pitaju o tvom iskustvu
earlier this year.
ranije ove godine.
at the first half of the year?
from a personal point of view,
s lične tačke gledišta
to reboot the Eurozone.
da nanovo definišemo Evrozonu.
that there was a massive --
architectural fault line
arhitektonsku pukotinu
the whole of the European Union process.
celokupnim procesima Evropske unije.
on the basis of the Greek program --
na osnovu grčkog programa -
to manifest that denial --
koji je obelodanio to poricanje -
of the Soviet Union.
that architecturally cannot survive,
koji arhitektonski ne može da preživi,
and through authoritarianism,
and catastrophically.
are you foreseeing?
the architecture of the Eurozone,
dok si bio ministar finansija?
when you were Finance Minister?
YV: Anybody who looks back --
or of anything else for that matter,
ili bilo čega drugog,
radi se o opasnim ljudima.
they're dangerous people.
was to sign the application
on the side of the creditors
od strane kreditora
in crushing our government,
da sruše našu vladu,
the architectural fault lines
arhitektonskim pukotinama
a catastrophic program in Greece.
katastrofalan program u Grčkoj.
našeg nominalnog BDP-a.
that have been imposing this policy
koja je primenjivala ovu politiku
of the discussion,
quite pro-European.
prilično pro-Evropljanin.
of the European Union and the Eurozone
Evropske unije i Evrozone
who lives and breathes Europe.
the Eurozone will not survive.
je da Evrozona neće preživeti.
that will be unleashed
not just for Europe
ne samo za Evropu,
economy in the world.
najveća ekonomija na svetu.
of the postmodern 1930's,
postmodernih 1930-ih,
and non-Europeans alike.
i sličnih neevropljana.
you are wrong on that point.
da grešiš po tom pitanju.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Yanis Varoufakis - Economist and professorYanis Varoufakis thinks we need a radically new way of thinking about the economy, finance and capitalism.
Why you should listen
Yanis Varoufakis describes himself as a "libertarian Marxist," although, he says, "It is not something that I volunteer to talk about much, because the very mention of Marx switches audiences off." He teaches economic theory at the University of Athens, where he challenges mainstream notions -- arguing that after the financial crash of 2008 we need a radically new way of thinking about the economy, finance and capitalism.
He became widely known in the first half of 2015 when, as Minister of Finance of the newly formed Greek government, he was a leading, outspoken and much-discussed figure in the renegotiations of Greece's debt.
In May 2017, Varoufakis released Adults in The Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment, a personal account of Europe's hidden agenda and an urgent wake-up call to renew European democracy.
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