Inside or outside Singapore, even it is an isolated case as claimed by the government, the Little India riot is a piece of international news. It presented the other side of Singapore to the international audiences, that a stable country can also have violence. So, we need to rethink the possible reasons for the Riot, beyond the official version. Besides riot, the whole of 2013 is a year of re-thinking, re-consideration, re-assessment and re-evaluation of our past, present and future. The PAP is re-thinking and re-introducing democratic socialist. Why? It is because our very successful model is mainly based on the rentier economy and rentier capitalism. So, the PAP is re-examining its glory past and tries to re-fine the model. Will it work? It is too early to tell. Rentier economy Rentier economy usually refers to oil rich producing countries but it can also refer to countries that have certain characteristics of a ren...
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