As dicentra knows, her interlocutor’s “dialogue” is but a typical grad-level regurgitation of anti-foundationalism applied to politics in an effort to lazily and cleverly pull a PhD from the leftists who wish to see capitalism replaced by liberal fascism, which they will always claim is a stepping stone to egalitarian communism, but which never arrives there, given the necessity of the more clever pigs to manage the rest of the

I jumped in on an interesting an ultimately distressing little conversation on Twitter yesterday. Most of the exchange is here, including what came before I jumped in. (I haven’t read it all and don’t need the headache.) I’ve also inserted things that Twitter didn’t thread. My interlocutor, @SettlerColonial, is writing a PhD thesis, and we got into the nature of property rights. @SettlerColonial has stopped responding to my tweets, so