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Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar on the Monetary Commons
Episode 57
Saturday, 31 January, 2026
Yanis Varoufakis and Raphael Arar discuss the Monetary Commons.Find the feed of English episodes only here: https://www.futurehistories-international.com/You can also import the RSS feed to your favorite app: https://www.futurehistories-international.com/feed.xml ShownotesYanis’ website:https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/Raphael’s website:https://rarar.com/Iza Romanowska at Aarhus University:https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/iza-romanowska/Hirad’s website:https://hiradsab.com/the Monetary Commons website:https://monetarycommons.com/Varoufakis, Y. (2024). Technofeudalism. What Killed Capitalism. Vintage Books.https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095Varoufakis, Y. (2021). Another Now. Melville House.https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/another-now/on the 2025 German ‘Sondervermögen’/‘The Special Fund for Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality’:https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/EN/Issues/Public-Finances/SVIK/special-fund-infrastructure-and-climate-neutrality.htmlon Wolfgang Schäuble:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4ubleGraeber, D. (2011). Debt. The first 5,000 Years. Melville House.https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdfon IOU’s:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOUon the Money Market Multiplier:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplieron Ludwig Wittgenstein’s argument of the impossibility of a private language:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/on the Digital Renminbi in China:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbion Universal Basic Income (UBI):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_incomeBerry, C. (2023). The Case for a Universal Basic Dividend. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, Policy Brief series 25.https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/sites/bartlett/files/berry_c_2023._the_case_for_a_universal_basic_dividend.pdfon fiat money:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_moneyVaroufakis, Y. (2013). Bitcoin and the Dangerous Fantasy of ‘Apolitical’ Money.https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/on the case of Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge, being sanctioned by the US:https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-french-icc-judge-sanctioned-by-the-us-you-are-effectively-blacklisted-by-much-of-the-world-s-banking-system_6747628_4.htmlon the distributed ledger technology:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_ledgerMau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsionMcCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-toolsSorg, C. (2025). Finance as a Form of Economic Planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 17-37.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231217578on citizen’s assemblies:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assemblyon the International Monetary Fund (IMF):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fundon the Digital Euro:https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.htmlthe essay that includes the quote by Peter Thiel on the incompatibility of liberalism/capitalism and democracy:https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/on the Meidner Plan:https://jacobin.com/2025/08/sweden-socialism-rehn-meidner-planon the Trump administration buying 10% of Intel shares:https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-economic-and-policy-experts-think-about-the-u-s-governments-stake-in-intelon Cloud Capital (see also Yanis’ ‘Technofeudalism’ book):https://youtu.be/3gsGvgrsyOU?si=fQwW5BEHBFDvB980on Ursula K. Le Guin:https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guinthe speech including the mentioned quote by her:https://youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk?si=VCGW4OoDqY0HXa2Eon the 1973 Coup in Chile:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9taton Modern Monetary Theory (MMT):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theoryon Fernando Haddad:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Haddadon pix:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)on the 2008 financial crisis in Iceland:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932011_Icelandic_financial_crisisFuture Histories Episodes on Related TopicsS3E29 | Nancy Fraser on Alternatives to Capitalismhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e29-nancy-fraser-on-alternatives-to-capitalism/S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planunghttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e21-christoph-sorg-zu-finanzwirtschaft-als-planung/S03E19 | Wendy Brown on Socialist Governmentalityhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e19-wendy-brown-on-socialist-governmentality/S02E34 | tante zu Crypto-Imaginaries und alternativen technologischen Infrastrukturenhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e34-tante-zu-crypto-imaginaries-und-alternativen-technologischen-infrastrukturen/S02E28 | Marcus Meindel zum Global Commoning Systemhttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e28-marcus-meindel-zum-global-commoning-system/S01E59 | Joscha Wullweber zu Zentralbankkapitalismushttps://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e59-joscha-wullweber-zu-zentralbankkapitalismus/S01E34 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 2)https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e34-aaron-sahr-zu-monetaerer-souveraenitaet-und-modern-monetary-theory-teil-2/S01E33 | Aaron Sahr zu monetärer Souveränität und Modern Monetary Theory (Teil 1)https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e33-aaron-sahr-zu-monetaerer-souveraenitaet-und-modern-monetary-theory-teil-1/ Future Histories Contact & SupportIf you like Future Histories, please consider supporting us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistoriesContact: office@futurehistories.todayTwitter: https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistoriesEnglish webpage:https://futurehistories-international.com Episode Keywords#YanisVaroufakis, #RaphaelArar #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #futurehistoriesinternational, #MonetaryCommons, #Commons, #Transition, #Capitalism, #Socialism, #Narratives, #MMT, #CentralBanks, #MoneyCreation, #Commoning, #Finance
