In the geography of David Harvey, the philosophy of Alain Badiou or the revolutionary heritage guidebooks of Eric Hazan, the Commune is the culmination of the French revolution, a "Universal Republic" whose ambitions were as expansive as its existence was brief.
It's a big ambition, universal truth, but somebody's gotta do it".
Back in the paddies, youngsters would be lucky to get $100 a year.Ask the shoeshine boys and their ambition is universal: save for a Dream (a Honda motorbike) and become a taxi driver.
With Amazon winning headlines (if not universal praise) for its ambitions to deliver packages using drones, rival tech giant Google has announced its latest futuristic "moonshot": robots.
A shrinking domestic deposit-base is hardly the best platform for a universal bank with global ambitions, especially when its local rival, UBS, seems to be doing much better.
So ambitions of universal popularity have been replaced by a more realistic picking of friends and battles.Amongst these, the most serious issue has been the relationship between the New Labour government and its traditional supporters.
The two former chief executives of Vivendi Universal and Alsthom, respectively bore ambitions that led their firms to the edge of bankruptcy.
"I believe that our ambition for universal childcare is as bold and as ambitious as was the determination to create the National Health Service," he added.
According to the latter, the emperor had no ambition for universal dominion; his policy was limited in the same way as that of every other ruler, and when he made more far-reaching claims his object was normally to ward off the attacks either of the pope or of the Byzantine emperor.
According to estimates from Unesco's Institute for Statistics (UIS), published to coincide with World Teachers' Day on 5 October, the international community needs to recruit 24.4 million primary school teachers, and 44.4 million secondary school teachers, in order to achieve the ambition of universal education outlined in the sustainable development agenda.
There are, of course, hundreds of bioscience journals worldwide, and there is a long way to go in terms of our ambition of universal support and uptake.
