Sign up for the upcoming Downstream Newsletter here: Get tickets for the next Downstream IRL, 'Gaza: The Story of a Genocide' (with Aaron Bastani) at EartH Hackney on Mon 13 Oct at 6:30 pm: Our guest on Downstream this week is the economist and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis. He joined Aaron to discuss his most recent book, Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, a memoir about the women in Yanis’ family who raised him and instilled in him a political conscience. Is patriarchy harmful to the perpetrators, as well as women? Did Tony Blair do more to privatise Britain than Margaret Thatcher? Does Keir Starmer have a plan? And how does fascism end up destroying not just those it deems to be its enemies, but the motherland as well? NOTICE: We are aware there is a mistake in the edit of this episode, it is being fixed. 00:00 Intro 02:27 Five women who inspired Yanis’ political life 09:34 The Greeks In Egypt 22:02 The Asia Minor Catastrophe 29:30 Fascism always wrecks the motherland 36:43 The root cause of fascism is capitalism 39:44 Was America ever great? 45:19 Why Yanis doesn’t take Steve Bannon’s call 50:16 Communism can save the climate 1:00:18 The problems with Starmer 1:05:25 "Tony Blair is as evil as they come" 1:09:09 The road from Thatcher to Reform 1:13:36 Feminism, the manosphere, and the master-slave paradox 1:23:44 On pornography 1:32:52 Humans need rules to live by 1:34:34 Physics or economics? 1:42:48 Collective will 1:48:14 Coming back from a bad year Support our work: