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To whom will monuments be built a century from now? Among them, perhaps, will be Lee Kuan Yew. He will be remembered not only as the first prime minister of Sin
by smnrchrds 6y ago
To whom will monuments be built a century from now? Among them, perhaps, will be Lee Kuan Yew. He will be remembered not only as the first prime minister of Singapore, but also as the creator of authoritarian capitalism, an ideology set to shape the next century much as democracy shaped the last.
It was, after all, to Singapore that Deng Xiaoping came before enacting his far-reaching economic reforms in China. Until then, capitalism and democracy had seemed inextricably linked. Now the link is broken.
- Slavoj Zizek
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- riffic 6y agoIn Star Trek (TOS: "Patterns of Force", "Whom Gods Destroy"), Lee Kuan is the name given to a historical political despot on Earth sometime between the mid-20th and the 23rd century. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lee_Kuan https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lee_Kuan This character was only mentioned in dialogue. Lee Kuan shares naming elements with Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Singapore in the 1960s. Lee established a hybrid form of governance with democratic and authoritarian elements.