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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
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Another Now falls into a rather niche category of fiction books. A category that attempts to explain and exemplify very difficult and intricate political ideas in the form of fiction. Putting Mr. Varoufakis into the same group of authors as Ayn Rand. A comparison he's no doubt happy about /s.
All kidding aside, this is a good, if not very superficial, explanation of corpo-syndicalism as a practical system of economical governance.
But throughout my reading of the book, I couldn't help shake the feeling that Varoufakis' political examples doesn't quite live up to his political Ideals. What is described in the Other Now seems less like a dissolution of capitalism than a rebranding of the underlying values of capitalism. Said in a different way, this is a good microcritique but a poor macrocritique. The world of the Other Now is still very much a product of bourgeois ideas such as the privileging of work, the fetishization of work and a general acceptance of abstract property rights.
All kidding aside, this is a good, if not very superficial, explanation of corpo-syndicalism as a practical system of economical governance.
But throughout my reading of the book, I couldn't help shake the feeling that Varoufakis' political examples doesn't quite live up to his political Ideals. What is described in the Other Now seems less like a dissolution of capitalism than a rebranding of the underlying values of capitalism. Said in a different way, this is a good microcritique but a poor macrocritique. The world of the Other Now is still very much a product of bourgeois ideas such as the privileging of work, the fetishization of work and a general acceptance of abstract property rights.