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/^t/The policy which consists in violence and dictatorship is traditionally recognised as unethical and evil, and its creators as wrongdoers or, simply, madmen. So they call Hitler and Stalin, and likewise one may label Mr Kurtz from The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. According to others however, such people are geniuses, as Kurtz was regarded to be by Marlow; nevertheless, their barbarian, inhuman deeds prove, unquestionably, that the wit they had to elaborate their position, is diabolic one. There is no doubt that at the background of most Kurtz's actions lay his lust for power and from this aspect I will try to discuss in this paper, which designation: a genius or a madman, is more appropriate for this character.