It only has an excerpt, but one point towards that is this:<p>In the past 10,000 years there have been five economic systems.  10,000 years ago the world were primitive hunter-gather bands living in primitive communism.  Then the slave societies of Babylon, Egypt, Greece etc. arose.  Then the Roman empire was replaced by feudal states - and while things in places like China were slightly different, there were definite parallels to feudalism.  Then capitalism arose as the process of production.  From the Paris commune, to the Bolshevik revolution, to the leftie society on one side of the Spanish civil war on, you might say there were the beginnings of a fifth economic system, the one Varoufakis talks about.<p>In this context, all of this makes more sense.  Economic systems eventually outlive their usefulness and are replaced by something else.  Marx said the new economic system would come out of the center of the world economy - in his day that was a place like Germany.  If he was alive today he might say it would come from Silicon Valley, or some bio-industrial center, or maybe some up and coming economic center in East Asia.