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Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/43618912

Varoufakis, now secretary of the small leftist party Mera25, is due to appear in court in December.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 54 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You have got to be joking. He admitted to partying back in the 80's...and they're charging him for saying it was enjoyable? What the actual fuck?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Varoufakis, now secretary of the small leftist party Mera25

It's a politically motivated act of terrorism. Authoritarians/dictators/fascists always twist the rule of law to destroy the lives of their opposition.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 days ago

Greece is so fucking corrupt it’s hard to explain how stupid this is

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Seems dumb as heck

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 4 days ago

OF COURSE ITS NBC NEWS, the other FOX, trying to air the boogeymans"leftists, and drug"

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yanis is so Based

[–] Limerance@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

Yanis talking without shutting up while rolling sounds like a fun time. 

[–] smeg@infosec.pub -2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Finance bro uses party drugs. Not exactly news.

[–] MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Calling Varoufakis a finance bro is wild. He is kinda a Marxist.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He's a finance bro by personality, Marxist-ish by economy

[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

The only acceptable finance bro

[–] OilyArena@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

KKE are Marxist. Syriza is not.

[–] MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago

I don't know much about the man but I found this

He has described himself as a "libertarian Marxist".[46]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

Libertarian Marxism is a broad scope of economic and political philosophies that emphasize the anti-authoritarian and libertarian aspects of Marxism.[211] Early currents of libertarian Marxism such as left communism[212] emerged in opposition to Marxism–Leninism.[213] Libertarian Marxism is often critical of reformist positions such as those held by social democrats.[214]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communist_ideologies#Libertarian_Marxism

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

The marxist thing makes it news worthy.