Interview with CHRISTIAN MARAZZI by IDA DOMINIJANNI

Mission impossible: saving the Euro, the landslide of de-Europeanization and the geopolitical cataclysm that can come from it. But the crisis can’t be resolved through austerity, only recession and depression are produced. An interview with Christian Marazzi on penitence after the neoliberal binge and the antidote of the common.

Economist, professor at universities in Switzerland, Padua, New York and Geneva and a highly regarded activist and intellectual of radical leftist movements, Christian Marazzi is one of the most lucid analysts of the current economic-financial crisis. Among the first to diagnose its historic character and global impact in 2009 when the crisis exploded in the U.S., he predicted the Eurozone’s inevitable involvement. Astute analyst of financialization as postfordist biocapitalism’s modus operandi, he doesn’t believe in the possibility of overcoming the crisis or containing its contradictions through economically rigorous policies. We begin with the rescuing the Euro to think about what is down the road ahead.