Viva Varoufakis!

Talks between Greece and the heads of eurozone broke down today in Brussel's. Jeroen Dijsselbloem tried to bum rush Varoufakis, and Varoufakis beat him back. 

Today Varoufakis published a fantastic Op-Ed in the Gray Lady, "No Time for Games in Europe," where he justifies the stance of his government and its insistence to establish a real strategy for growth as opposed to mindless, petty, inhuman austerity. 

In the critical last two paragraphs of the piece he invokes Kant! In particular, Kant's ethics (which, as the Konigsbergian argued, is as close as we can get to the noumenon):

One may think that this retreat from game theory is motivated by some radical-left agenda. Not so. The major influence here is Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who taught us that the rational and the free escape the empire of expediency by doing what is right.

How do we know that our modest policy agenda, which constitutes our red line, is right in Kant’s terms? We know by looking into the eyes of the hungry in the streets of our cities or contemplating our stressed middle class, or considering the interests of hard-working people in every European village and city within our monetary union. After all, Europe will only regain its soul when it regains the people’s trust by putting their interests center-stage.

Viva Varoufakis!