Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up | Yanis Varoufakis

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4. Varoufakis was finance minister for the SYRIZA party. He's a socialist economist.

If you're on to David Korten I think that's pretty close to the Gar Alperovitz stuff. Basically just trying to have more democracy through worker co-ops and a more community oriented economy, with some emphasis on more local control, as opposed to everything being run by multinational corporations.

With regard to human nature it clearly has some tendencies toward authority, greed and domination, but also some other tendencies toward solidarity and mutual aid. So I guess we should try to have a system that encourages the better tendencies and discourages the worse ones. The capitalist system clearly encourages and enables the negative tendencies like greed, rent seeking, power grabbing. That's practically the definition of capitalism. Socialism would hopefully discourage those tendencies by democratizing power and bringing capital under relatively more democratic control. That's my thought anyway. Others would have different ideas I'm sure.