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I can muster an easy Marxist objection to Chesterton's Fence: the fence was put there by a very powerful person who nobody else liked very much, and now that he's out of power, everyone else wants to remove the fence, because we never wanted it in the first place.
Chesterton's point isn't that you should never remove the fence, it's that you shouldn't remove it until you know why it's there.
Yes, this is true. However, within the social context of his own times, "the powerful guy wanted it there and we don't!" is such a common reason (in fact, it's fairly common today) that you should expect it before even studying the fence.