The right-wingers who are eulogizing Lee only go to show that their problem with communism was never the oppression but simply the failure to deliver the goods of material wealth and their refusal to accept that as the sole legitimate organizing principle of society.
The same right wingers love Chinese tyrants who suppress unions and prohibit democracy and have a Kleptocracy at the top, because they deliver the goods: converting hundreds of millions of people into slave armies to produce wealth for the elites.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/lee-kuan-yew-legacy-116317.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email#.VRGMX4ZHarV
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