What does that even mean?

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Abstract: British and US imperial policies have explicitly aimed at physical and mental occupation worldwide. The critical analysis of the resultant global inequality needs to explore how it was legitimated. The myth of terra nullius, expounded by Locke, served to legitimate European colonial dominance, which was denounced by Kant. Americanisation has been exported as a cultura nullius serving to consolidate consumerism and the underlying military and economic system. Neoliberalism increases inequality that is a causal factor in dysfunctional capitalist societies. The economic and political integration of Europe has been closely coordinated with and choreographed by the US. The presence of English has been dramatically increased throughout Europe. Its active promotion worldwide is of major political and economic significance for the UK and the USA. Advocates of English as universally valid, including the current applied linguistic vogue for analysing English as a ‘lingua franca’, see English as a lingua nullius detached from the forces behind is expansion. The integration of European higher education is being coerced into a single template, ‘internationalisation’ equating with ‘English-medium studies’. Some European countries however are forming language policy to ensure that English is only used additively. Critical scholarship that seeks to increase social justice exposes how occupation, physical and mental, has been legitimated and can be counteracted.

We need to be the change we wish to see in the world. To give millions a knowledge of English is to enslave us.

Mahatma Gandhi

the British Empire and the United States who, fortunately for the progress of mankind, happen to speak the same language and very largely think the same thoughts.
The power to control language offers far better prizes than taking away people’s provinces or lands or grinding them down in exploitation. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

The plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.

D. Armstrong in Harper’s Magazine 305, 2002.

It is nonetheless the desire of every state (or its ruler) to achieve lasting peace by thus dominating the whole world, if at all possible. But nature wills it otherwise, and uses two means to separate the nations and prevent them from intermingling – linguistic and religious differences. These may certainly occasion mutual hatred and provide pretexts for war, but as culture grows and men gradually move towards greater agreement over their principles, they lead to mutual understanding and peace.

Immanuel Kant, Perpetual peace, a philosophical sketch, 1796