The Relationship Between Power and the Universal

I think there's a distinction, as an intellectual, I would love to have that conversation with you, right? Because I think it would be interesting intellectual history. There is something about the relationship that power has to the idea of the universal that's extended itself into the problem of eliminating other groups of people. So the reality of the situation is that whether or not Hitler was suffering from a mistaken identity of being a universalist is that he created a certain system of power and deployment of violence which certainly occupied a moment within human history.

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