Описание: Yesterday Zena arrived home pleased to win the bidding when this book was auctioned at an election fundraiser for the local Labour Party. She knew I'd want to read it. Even without the signature of Yanis Varoufakis on the title page. If any left-wing politician/academic has something like rock-star status it's probably Varoufakis. He has the enormous advantage of an inside track on key international events. He also writes and speaks clear lively English. For an ignoramus like me, he demonstrates that ancient Greek culture and history often has an immediacy and relevance. For example, his allegory of the United States as a "Global Minotaur" may have seemed far-fetched to many readers. Yet Giles Wilkes the Financial Times' sceptical reviewer, following a string of criticisms of that 2015 book, acknowledged that Varoufakis' "basic diagnosis may be correct". How about this new book? When posting the photo, I'd read only the beginning of the Preface: "The Red Blanket". It drew me in, If you buy or borrow the book and want to come fresh to the brief story of six-year-old Yannis and his parents' blanket, then don't click on the second link below. From my starting position of ignorance of classical Greece I've now also learned a little history - at least according to the Athenian historian Thucydides. He described the disastrous failure of negotiations between the mightier forces of the Athenians and the weaker forces of Melos - the Melians. "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must". Anyone following the insults swapped by U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and the European Union politicians and bureaucrats will recognise echoes of the way Greece was treated by the European Union - the type of bullying and "cold shoulder" tactics which Yanis Varoufakis and others describe in various articles and online videos. I hope Theresa May reads this book. Or at least gets a short punchy summary from her Civil Service advisers. Though I somehow doubt it. Even less likely are Varoufakis, James Galbraith and others to receive an invitation to meet the U.K. Brexit negotiating team and share their experience and ideas. _________________________________ § "The six Brexit traps that will defeat Theresa May". (In the Guardian's print edition Varoufakis' article is called: "Know Your enemy".) § Article in The Guardian Tuesday 5 April 2016. Yanis Varoufakis: Why we must save the EU.
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