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Yanis Varoufakis

Greek economist and former finance minister

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Briefly Greece’s finance minister in 2015, when he fought its creditors over austerity, and later co-founded the DiEM25 movement for democratizing Europe.

Yanis Varoufakis sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly anti-establishment on institutions and leaning libertarian on liberty and authority. The profile is close to the middle on technology.

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Where Yanis Varoufakis sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyCentered on technology
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Yanis Varoufakis

Critical theoryExamines how power, class, race and gender shape institutions and ideas, and aims to…99%Social ecologyTies the ecological crisis to social hierarchy and proposes directly democratic,…99%Radical democracyWants more direct participation in decisions, through assemblies, referendums and…99%Democratic confederalismA stateless, feminist and ecological model of local assemblies federated from below.98%

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