>>2618165>All this achieved through a strict neoliberal economySingapore is not neoliberal. Housing, transportation, energy etc are all contingent on the State (with some being entirely owned by the state). The Singaporean government economically hermecize the individual from the market by providing him with enough to survive.
In marxian terms, the gov protects the individual from some of the capitalist contradictions which exist.
>Lee Yew is practically worshipped by Neoliberal for not only his policies but also for his Anti-communist operations.Not really. He's worshipped by libertarians who don't understand how their economy works, ironically often not realizing that the """freedom""" loving Lee has had to create the biggest investment fund in existence and some of the most extensive social policies to guarantee said-freedom to individuals.
And more interestingly, he's also worshipped by illiberal asian countries (like China) for developing an undemocratic yet prosperous society.
>Marxist (atleast I haven't found any) can't point out to any contradiction plaguing Singaporean multicultural society.Singapore is a tax-heaven, depends on foreign labor work who seek citizenship, and is essentially fiscally limited on some enterprise to exist. What do you think happens if these enterprise disappear and labor source ?
>Does this economical path is the way to prosperity, as an alternative to liberal western ideology.No because it's contingent on certain criterias which can't be extrapolated to the entirety of western societies. It's the same reason as to why every european country didn't lower taxes like Ireland to prosper.
It's like saying that the gulf model can be extrapolated to european countries.
>Can he be refuted by Dialectical Materialism?Its existence is actually a pretty good example of the material dialetic given that the people there don't seem to be concerned for their democracy as long as their material needs are ensured.
Even more, its entire existence is predicated on an economic reality : that of having a tax heaven alongside one of the biggest social safety net to safeguard the population from immeseration
>>2618228Marxism can't explain fascism because fascism has "idealist" (and not material) cause.
Fascism is essentially a population forfeiting their liberal rights to safeguard their country from a percieved threat (immigrants, jews, sexual minorities etc). This is why fascism is fundamentally a reactionary right-wing regime. It doesn't try to change societies, but only to radically safeguard it.