FinMin Yanis: Armageddon? Let it happen! No 'Bruce Willis' backup plan

Yanis Varoufakis, Greece' feisty and media-savvy Finance Minister, continues to generate heavy-duty media attention not only for his radical and candid positions seeking a much better deal for debt and recession-bombed Greece ? but also, for his fashion choices.

In an interview with Helena Smith, the Guardian's long-time correspondent for Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, the self-described "libertarian communist" economist spoke openly about a number of issues, including his new and untested government's strategy in view of a critical Eurogroup meeting on Monday. The world's newest "celebrity economist" and an occasional US and Australia resident also answers questions on media reactions to his style and ? Marxist ideology.

With regard to rave reviews in the international press about his non-conformist stylistic choices and the fact that he has been compared to comic-book and mythical heroes, likened to a rock star, hailed as a sex icon and feted by fashionistas, Varoufakis told the Guardian that he doesn't plan or promote this image.

"They go on about me riding a motorbike, but I have been riding a bike since I was 15. I just am who I am," the FinMin said.

The journalist describes Varoufakis as a "muscular, fit and amiable" man full of "energy, focus and intensity."

"An hour in his company will take you places; in our case, from Marxist theory to the joys of jazz; the eurozone and its incomplete architecture; sartorial tastes; Nazism; the bigness of America; austerity politics; debt traps; poetry; exercise and Varoufakis' tendency to keep his hands in his pockets," Smith writes.

Asked to elaborate on his Marxist views, he replies: "I was told, once, by a left-wing scholar that as a Marxist you have to do two things: always be...