That love is the absence of power is obviously not true since by the very definition the author offers—“Here, take my heart. It’s yours now.”—it empowers the object of that love, putting it in a position of total control. Furthermore the very idea of being able to take one’s heart and turn it over into the total control of the other, presupposes an act of control that makes that desire for abandonment self-contradictory—an age old pardox.
But putting all this nitpicking aside and for all intents and purposes, the point that the author makes is totally valid. The fundamental question of political philosophy is whether individuals are primarily a collection of isolated units governed by and trapped into a search for self-interest or whether we are all one, something to start from and to strife for.
