This hits the nail on the head. Alexander has a horror of power struggles and wants to believe they can all be rplaced with debate, but that simply doesn't work.
Some commentary: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2015/06/moldbuggery.html
The first link there offers a theory of how nerd culture interacts (or tries to avoid interacting) with politics to produce things like libertarianism and neoreaction.
He addresses this somewhat meta-level issue in his posts on Conflict vs. Mistake: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/24/conflict-vs-mistake/
(and I try and tear it apart here: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2018/03/conflict-theory.h... )