"To bring this about, it would help if American leftists stopped asking whether or not Walter Reuther's attempt to bourgeoisify the auto workers was objectivly reactionary. It would also help if they emphasized the similarities rather than the differences between Malcolm X and Bayard Rustin, between Susan B. Anthony and Emma Goldman, between Catharine MacKinnon and Judith Bulter. The sectarian divisions which plagued Marxism are manifestations of an urge for purity which the Left would be better off without." (Rorty, Achieving Our Country, pp. 51-52).
In other words we should stop thinking in the name of unity, which is a purity of sorts too.
This guy is taken seriously as a philosopher, right?
Doug