Stern.de: You talk as if you were in the midst of warfare.
Varoufakis: It was a war. A financial war. Nowadays you don’t need tanks to defeat someone. You have your banks. It’s a bit like in Brecht’s ‘Threepenny Novel’ where it says: “The days of crude violence are over. You no longer have to send out murderers if you can simply send a bailiff.”
via Yanis Varoufakis: "They bury the values of democracy" – Ausland | STERN.de.
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