Verbatim quote · defining passage

“Universalism is really the imagining of the world under a single empire—not necessarily under the rule of a single individual or institution (but maybe that as well), but certainly all subject to the same regime of rights and their enforcement. To contend for universalism is to make war on the particulars—that is, everyone less universal than you take yourself to be.”

— Adam Katz, Nationalism, Globalism, Empire · Apr 2016 · GABlog