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I linked to Brian Leiter giving a pretty concise statement of the problem just today, but I guess linking to a philosophy blog without providing context wasn't a good idea. When the left has been effective it has been by helping everyone look behind the curtain, encouraging everyone to instead see the role they're playing as central and ignore everything else makes it abundantly clear which roles suck, but doesn't help with making them suck less, because if you're not one of the powerful you need overwhelming numbers to make any change and carving the powerless up into ever smaller blocs defined by ever more subtle identities means no one has the numbers to matter.