#Soros has announced a billion dollar fund to interfere in the politics of India, China etc to ostensibly fight "authoritarian" despots. This was exactly the language used by 19th century European thinkers to justify colonisation. 1/n
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John Stuart Mill is much celebrated as a "liberal" but he worked for the East India Company and actively justified colonization as deliverance from "Asian despotism" and as a civilising mission 2/n
In his book "Consideration on Representative Government", Mill states that Britain did not benefit from colonising the world but must do it in the interest of world peace. Not too different from Soros, eh? 3/n 
In Edward Said's classic "Orientalism", he explicitly lays out how self-declared "liberals" use academic investments to perpetuate political control. The parallels with Soros' announcement are chilling 4/n
Even more ironical perhaps, was how Karl Marx justified colonisation, "England has to fulfil a double mission in India. One destructive, the other regenerating; the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying of the material foundations of Western society in Asia." 5/n
Those who support Soros as the same who get all upset with supposed Russian "interference" in US or UK politics. Russian media is "banned" from UK events. How are they worse than state-owned BBC interfering in the politics of former colonies?
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