Does the left need a Lee Kuan Yew?

00:59:39 — Does the left need a Lee Kuan Yew? (Sloterdijk’s prophecy)

Pushed on whether he is actually advocating an authoritarian modernizer, Žižek doesn’t flinch — ‘absolutely’ — and backs the reply with Sloterdijk’s counter-intuitive prediction that Lee Kuan Yew, not any Western statesman of recent decades, will be the figure of this era to whom monuments eventually get built. What the left needs, on this reading, is not Lee’s methods but a politics that can produce comparable social coherence in service of its own ends.