It’s always very interesting to hear settler conservatives criticize statism, considering that in a broad historical sense, the settler has the state to thank for making their presence upon Indigenous land possible.

Settler historical claims to rugged individualism and political independence is historical revisionism in that it discounts the power of the state in both dislodging Indigenous people from the land as well as redistributing it to settlers via homesteading and seized allotments.

Thus, through the processes of ‘primitive’ accumulation, the settler state passed Indigenous land into the hands of individual settlers which then became the grounds through which settler social and agricultural capital were built.