Union of Europeans

Yanis Varoufakis, messenger from a more fortunate stub, delivers this fiery message to the 515 million citizens of the European Union:

Varoufakis: "[Back in 2016] I could've gotten up on the stage [in Berlin] and could have said, 'this European Union doesn't work, let's disintegrate it. I will now catch a flight of Aegean airlines or whatever -- Lufthansa -- and go to Greece and I'm going to fight there for socialism. And you [Germans] do this here. And then let's exchange notes at some point.' If I had done that, the people in the Volksbuhne would have been grossly disappointed because suddenly they would feel that they're alone. That they are Germans that must fight the German establishment as Germans. And we would feel alone in Greece because we would have to fight the Greek oligarchy as Greeks alone." 

"What we said instead was: let's all get together and fight our oligarchies together, through a common program of change. And that means we are not going to give away the European institutions that are unreformable to those that use them against the many. We're not going to say, the European Investment Bank: do away with it. We're not going to say, the European Central Bank, ah, well, shut it down. We're not going to say that all the various achievements of parliamentarians in Europe, trade unions in Europe, to create some kind of protection of the environment at the European level, at the level of labor markets, that we're going to give them all up." 

"No. We're going to take them over. And we're going to take them over and put them to use, press them into the service of genuine solidarity against the big business cartel, we're going to take them and turn them against both business-as-usual establishment, which is creating the crisis that is feeding the Salvinis [i..e revanchist fascisms], and against the Salvinis."  [4:34-6:23 in video]