I’m happy to disengage, then. But for the record, I don’t actually know what you mean by formalism in this context; you seem to think that it’s a dreadful thing to accuse someone of, but the OP doesn’t use the word at all, you never define it, and the Wikipedia page is irrelevant enough to the post that I’m pretty sure you must mean something else.
Formalism is Moldbug’s name for his own politicaal theory. It isn’t prominent enough to have a WP article. I would guess that Ilya associates it with another political system beginning with the letter F.
I’m happy to disengage, then. But for the record, I don’t actually know what you mean by formalism in this context; you seem to think that it’s a dreadful thing to accuse someone of, but the OP doesn’t use the word at all, you never define it, and the Wikipedia page is irrelevant enough to the post that I’m pretty sure you must mean something else.
Formalism is Moldbug’s name for his own politicaal theory. It isn’t prominent enough to have a WP article. I would guess that Ilya associates it with another political system beginning with the letter F.