Yanis Varoufakis is tipped to become finance minister of what may become Greece’s leading party after legislative elections on Sunday. He tells Britain’s Channel 4 what Syriza will do if it takes power.

Channel 4 economics editor Paul Mason asks Varoufakis, who teaches economics at the University of Athens, “what will you do to [Greece’s] oligarchy, concretely?”

Varoufakis responds, “We are going to destroy the basis upon which they have built, for decade after decade, a system, a network that viciously sucks of the energy and economic power from everybody else in society.”

When Mason responds that Varoufakis knows what happened “last time somebody tried to take power from the Greek oligarchy,” Varoufakis replies, “the good fight has to be fought independently of costs.

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