The History of Political Ideology in the Modern Era

The idea is not quite that as with the French Revolution, right? You know, from now on, there will be something called human rights. They will be universal. Everyone will be both a person and a citizen. We will organize ourselves into these republics in which we can express our common will. That's our idea. And so far as we have a reflexive narrative of how political ideology works or the history of political ideas in the modern era was like someone has an idea; then over time they start to try to figure out ways to make everyone on earth agree with them. Right? It's so hegemonic that that's why people have trouble understanding this about them.

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