Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.