This kind of universalism is hard. There are so many perfectly good reasons for people on the broadly defined left to be fed up, angry, and disappointed with one another, and to latch onto those disappointments to rationalize splintering into smaller and smaller groups. But when power and wealth and weaponry and information technology are concentrated in so few hands, and those hands are willing to deploy them for the most venal and reckless of ends, splintering is tantamount to surrender. Up against oligarchy, all we have is the power latent in our capacity to unite. Race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and nationality shape our distinct needs, experiences, and historical debts. We must hold on to those realities and build on a shared interest in challenging concentrated power and wealth, while constructing new structures that are infinitely more fair, and more fun.

XREF: Connects to familiar debates between identity politics and class-based/universalist organizing — echoes calls for coalition politics found in writers like Bernie Sanders and critical theory scholars. SEED: A potential essay angle: arguing why factional purity on the left is strategically self-defeating in an era of concentrated wealth and information control.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 1084