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“One’s freedom is existentially and unavoidably constrained by the network of social obligations and responsibilities that one has to a whole range of intimate and distant others, from family to nation.”

Politics Singapore

Book:Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore

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“This “vulnerability” has been ideologically harnessed to generate a string of political consequences: fear of becoming irrelevant to the global market, thus constantly in search of niches of opportunities for economic growth; fear of fragmentation, thus an insistence on tight social control to ensure social cohesion; fear of political polarization by different political parties with different ideologies that might jeopardize national development, thus an emphasis on the administrative advantages of a one-party dominant government.”

Politics Singapore

Book:Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore

Source: Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore

“a generalized anxiety about the long-term viability of the social, economic and political foundation of the island-nation has been transformed into a set of ideological justifications for and instrumental practices of tight social and political control, which taken together constitutes the authoritarianism of the regime.”

Politics Singapore

Book:Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore

Source: Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore