When I´m talking about a
coming Matrix Hybrid between Western Consumer Capitalism and Chinese Communism
this isn´t even a prophesy. We already see the beginning. The Slovenian continental
philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, sees the same: “capitalism doesn´t need democracy”,
he says in an interview. He says that the economical globalization increasingly
will be combined with stronger and more authoritarian national states. That is
our future, and we already see it with Trump, Erdogan and Putin, as well as what
is happening in China and India; an authoritarian capitalism. And he claims
that the one who is the father of such a way of thinking is Lee Kuan Yew from
Singapore. When Deng Xiaoping took the power in China in 1978, he went to the
authoritarian Singapore and here he saw, how that system functioned. He then decided
that it also should be like that in the the future of China, “and it works!”
says Žižek. “But do you know what makes me pessimistic about that development?
Slowly it happens – and this is very clear – that capitalism in lesser and
lesser degree needs democracy.”