The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

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

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

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

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