PODCAST 23: LEE KUAN YEW R.I.P.

Affirmative Right chief editor Colin Liddell is joined by our Philippines-based contributor Siryako Akda to discuss the life and legacy of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, who recently passed away at the age of 91, after presiding over a successful "fascist inspired" version of multiculturalism for several decades.

Among the topics discussed are Lee's Hakka Chinese background, his time in the UK, the history of South East Asia, Singapore's attempts at positive eugenics, the thalassocratic nature of South East Asia, and the influence of Confucianism on Lee's political outlook.

SHOW NOTES

Running order

• 00.00   Intro music
• 00.30   About Siryako Akda
• 04.00   Right-wing multiculturalism
• 07:35   Fascist influences  
• 09:25   Confucian roots
• 17:55   Thalasocratic geography of South East Asia
• 19.50   The "protean" and "mercurial" Hakka Chinese
• 24.10   Progress based on pragmatism and realims
• 25.38   Lee Kuan Yew on Muslims and gays
• 27.50   Eugenic policy
• 31.44   Demographic effects of modernization
• 37.50   Outro music

Links 

• Siryako Akda's articles at Alternative Right
• Demographics of Singapore
• Whatever Happened to Our Old Friend - Sir Oswald Mosley in Singapore
• The Sultanate of Malacca
• Who are the Hakka?
• Criticism of eugenics in Singapore
• Music by Mathew Eugene