Right wing furries/scalies are welcome to join the dragonsphere or my discord as long as they accept me as supreme authority and abide by my mostly leftist dictates.
The example I know best is probably Zinn, who contorts himself so much he takes regulatory capture as evidence against markets rather than as evidence against regulatory agencies and state power. Communism is a narrative, not a serious argument. It tries to win games, not be true
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This is exemplified by the host of continentals who later go on to try to undermine the epistemological possibility of truth itself: Baudrillard, Foucault, the Frankfurt School etc. Most of whom have been gleefully co-opted by the post-truth right to some extent or another.
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Sorcery is any kind of game strategy that doesn't take an honest person to deploy to a winning effect. Most things are sorcery. Sorcery works. And yes, capitalist arguments do obfuscate some things, but they aim to be true, not to be efficacious. It's a fundemental difference
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