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Destroying Greek Oligarchy; Davos Should Fear World They Created
‘We are going to destroy the Greek oligarchy system’. Yanis Varoufakis, tipped to be Syriza’s new finance minister, tells Paul Mason what his party would do if it gets into government in Greece, and admits the prospect of power in Europe is “scary”.
The Davos Oligarchs Should Fear The World They’ve Made. The architects of the crisis-ridden international economic order are starting to see the dangers. It’s not just the maverick hedge-funder George Soros, who likes to describe himself as a class traitor. Paul Polman, Unilever chief executive, frets about the “capitalist threat to capitalism”. Christine Lagarde, the IMF managing director, fears capitalism might indeed carry Marx’s “seeds of its own destruction” and warns that something needs to be done.
