Sarphan Uzunoğlu

“In other words, the digital party is the translation of the business model and organisational innovation of digital corporations to the political arena and their application to the idealistic project of the construction of a new democracy in digital times.”
― Paolo Gerbaudo, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy

“Parsimony was out and largesse became the new virtue. The Victorian belief that firms should be small and powerless, so that competition could perform its magic of keeping entrepreneurs honest, was replaced by the creed that ‘what is good for Big Business is good for America’.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

“The ascent of strongmen in India, Brazil, Hungary, and Poland reminds us that democracy is fragile, easily crushed. The “illiberal democracies” that have taken over in these countries no longer pretend to seek dialogue or compromise with their political opponents. They’ve embraced tribalism on a national scale and see their opponents not as fellow citizens but as enemies of the state. Ominously, their examples warn free people elsewhere that the fall from a liberal democracy to an illiberal one can be swift and unexpected.”
― Ethan Zuckerman, Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them

“If we are to carry around a number,’ Costa acknowledged, ‘it might as well convey our socialworthiness, not our creditworthiness. A number that is produced transparently, collectively and by randomly chosen fellow citizens – not by the bankers’ handmaidens.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present