New paper in @polphiljournal.bsky.social: "Ideal Theory as Fetishism." I argue that we should bring the materialist critique of idealism into methodological debates in political theory - and (as you may guess from the title) that ideal theory is a kind of fetishism in the Marxian sense.

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