Pavlos Roufos

Pavlos Roufos is an economic historian living in Berlin. His book A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past: The Greek Crisis and Other Disasters was published by Reaktion in the Field Notes series in 2018.

The following attempts to situate José Antonio Kast’s victory within the long trajectory of Chile’s violent neoliberalisation

Michael Kast (German official during WWII and Chilean sausage maker), ca. 1943 (based on his rank as a Cadet Lance Corporal, he joined the army in 1942, was a lieutenant in 1944 and surrendered in 1945).
In 2008, some rioters described their rebellion against police brutality in Greece as an image of the future. More than a decade later, but this time negatively, the truth of that insight continues to haunt.
Credit: Marios Lolos (@lolosmarios)
Leaving aside the ease with which officials adopted the monstrosity of describing migrants/refugees as an “invasion” force, a form of discourse monopolized until recently by the extreme right, a parallel observation is warranted: there was nothing sudden about what happened in March 2020.
In August 2019, a radical group in Hamburg invited G.M. Tamás and Pavlos Roufos to have a public discussion about nationalism, sovereignty, and post-fascism. After the talk, Roufos sat down with Tamás and had the following conversation.
Protest against Overtime Act in Budapest, December 8, 2018. Translation of sign "Worker's fist hits iron fist wherever he spends". Photo: Dohi Gabriella
Adam Tooze’s book, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World has been one of the most-admired books on economics in recent years.
Quinn Slobodian’s recent book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018) is a brilliant exposition of the widely contested concept of “neoliberalism.” Slobodian situates the concept in its historical context, urging a reconsideration of the term on both those who reject its significance and those who continue to misuse it.
Libcom claims that I misrepresented their arguments against Angela Nagle in my article, “The Aggressiveness of Vulnerability.” Something like that is always possible and mistakes should be corrected. This is not such a case.
Trump has been president for over a year now but the arguments over what led to his victory are far from settled. Many sought to explain the surprising results with an age-old idea about a part of America historically resistant to “progress.”
The Aggressiveness of Vulnerability
The publication of Yanis Varoufakis’s new book Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment (London: The Bodley Head, 2017) caused a considerable uproar in the Greek political discourse, as well as some international coverage.

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