‘There’s no such thing as democracy’: Yanis Varoufakis | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty

“民主这种东西根本不存在”:雅尼斯·瓦鲁法基斯 | 与阿迪蒂亚·查克拉博蒂的激思录

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2026-10-03

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Who is really in charge – the people or the markets? In the first episode of Radical Thinking, a new series from the Guardian, senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis about what it was like during the eurozone crisis when he went head to head with those who wanted to stop his reforms. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • Hello, it's Adit Chakraborty.

  • This episode is in your feed as part of a new special series called Radical Thinking.

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  • Code audio.

  • When I was listening to you, I had a terrible feeling.

  • Go on.

  • I miss Thatcher.

  • Who's really in charge?

  • You and me, the voters, or the bond markets?

  • Pretty much every centre-left politician across the West, from Andy Burnham to Zora Mamdani,

  • has a version of this question hanging over them.

  • How long do you think it will be before Andy Burnham is pushed aside for someone else?

  • You know, this is a tragedy of Andy Burnham.