Leninism, Asian culture and Singapore

SINGAPORE is a unique combination of Leninist organisational tactics with capitalist industrial and commercial technology implemented among a population with an Asian social background, resulting in a strictly controlled and paternalistic corporate entity that has delivered material wealth to its members.

This is the contention of Professor Yuen Chung Kwong, an Australian citizen currently living in Singapore. In his essay he analytically examines the various facets of this structure.

The essay was first published in Asian Profile, June 1999. Asian Profile is Canadian magazine published by Asian Research Service, Vancouver.