• New Economic Plutocracy?
  • Azly Rahman
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  • We have authored yet another Malaysia Plan. This is one is based on plutocracy, or the rule of the wealthy.

    Race-based political-economy will still guide us till 2020, the year we achieve clear vision in a world of the blind in which many one-eyed men want to become king.

    Robust growth, inspired by Sun Tze's maxim of the art of war, guided by economic liberalism of a newer version of race-based policy, synthesised with a new keris-wielding philosophy of globalisation, and finally graced with the language of love and care and benevolence of a religiously-puritanic government - this is the new Malaysian deal of which Roosevelt's America of the 1950s would have envied.

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