Lee Kuan Yew / Sloterdijk's monument question
example · Peter Sloterdijk ·
retold in 8 talks
Žižek's friend Peter Sloterdijk poses the thought experiment: who will people erect statues to in 200 years? His answer is Lee Kuan Yew, the architect of capitalism with Asian values, as the most consequential political innovator of our era.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 8
“if the present tendencies will go on, to whom will people raise monuments 200 years from our time… His idea was Lee Kuan Yew.”
“his answer was Lee Kuan Yew…Lee Kuan Yew invented and perfectly practiced the first what poetically we call capitalism with Asian values. Less poetically it means authoritarian capitalism.”
“to which person from our time will they maybe be building monuments years from now? His answer is Lee Kuan Yew... who was the first to invent and very successfully practice... 'capitalism with Asian values'.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 2 jobsuses
capitalism with Asian values
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eternal marriage between capitalism and democracy approaching divorce
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Lee Kuan Yew8Alan Greenspan3Robert Brasillach2Robert Conquest2Bernard Madoff2Deng Xiaoping7Jonathan Littell2Naomi Klein3
alongside works
Every retelling 8
Žižek's friend Peter Sloterdijk poses the thought experiment: who will people erect statues to in 200 years? His answer is Lee Kuan Yew, the architect of capitalism with Asian values, as the most consequential political innovator of our era., illustrating capitalism with Asian values,authoritarianism and capitalism,the decoupling of capitalism from democracy
At an airport, Sloterdijk told Žižek he was puzzling over who future generations would erect statues to; his answer: Lee Kuan Yew, the inventor of Singapore's 'capitalism with Asian values,' the model Deng Xiaoping took to China., illustrating capitalism with Asian values,capitalism decoupling from democracy
Sloterdijk speculated that Lee Kuan Yew, inventor of 'capitalism with Asian values,' may be the figure of our era to whom monuments are built in the future, not Mandela or a democratic hero but an authoritarian capitalist modernizer. Illustrates the new hegemony of authoritarian capitalism., illustrating authoritarian capitalism,capitalism with Asian values
Žižek recounts Sloterdijk's question: which person from our epoch will have monuments built to them in future? Sloterdijk answers Lee Kuan Yew, inventor of the economically successful but authoritarian Singapore model, the template for authoritarian capitalism., illustrating authoritarian capitalism
Sloterdijk predicts that in a hundred years the only monuments built to figures of our era will be to Li Kuan Yew, founder of Singapore and inventor of 'capitalism with Asian values', because he demonstrated that capitalism can thrive without democracy., illustrating capitalism with Asian values,capitalism's divorce from democracy
Peter Sloterdijk predicts a future monument to Lee Kuan Yew for having invented and sustained capitalism permanently without democracy in Singapore, subsequently adopted by China. Žižek uses this to argue the last legitimating link between capitalism and democracy is dissolving., illustrating capitalism with Asian values,capitalism and democracy