Thread by @sanjeevsanyal

I am glad that Africa too is waking up to its systematic depiction as a place that needs to be "saved" by the West through some overt/covert colonization. Always remember that the East India Company's brutalities in India was justified by "left-liberals" from JS Mill to Marx

https://twitter.com/kamath_nandini/status/1312389986189156352

Always be suspicious of Tarzans & Janes (or Phantoms) offering to protect you. They basically want to treat you as animals without agency..... and will extract a very high price by keeping you dependent

Since many people are tweeting about how Marx shed tears for colonial India. Well, he thought the colonial destruction of Indian civilization was a good thing as it paved the way for his "revolution"

More Marx on India: "England has to fulfil a double mission in India, one destructive, the other regenerative: the annihilation of Asiatic society, and laying the material foundations of a Western society in Asia"

You see, some of us have actually read Marx

Marx is exactly the kind of "Tarzan" this thread is warning you about. Will shed a lot of tears, but will ultimately treat you as fodder for his social experiment.