I don't think there's a contradiction between these two tweets
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certainly a contradiction on Jefferson.
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Might take a look -- not sure I agree based on my reading of Kant.
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Nope. Locke came to understand that the Stuart Empire and slavery were enemies to republican government See Brewer in American Historical Review October issue
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"came to understand" is doing a lot of work there.
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What the absolute FUCK is he blathering about???
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Adam Smith was a lone liberal Enlightenment voice against colonial mercantilism, and capitalists tend to project that attitude into all enlightenment thinkers
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Locke, on the other hand, developed an entire economic philosophy around justifying exploitation of theft of land from indigenous people
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Somebody send him Wolf’s Europe and the People Without History.
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The issue is whether imperialism is an integral part of liberal ideas and/or capitalist thought. Is the liberal thought of Mill or Locke or Tocqueville so intertwined with any imperial ideas as to inseparable?
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