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puritanical left in this vision "has no interest in mundane politics, because
politics serve merely to legitimize a system rotten to its core and ripe for
destruction: condemnation, yes, collaboration, no. For Rorty an obsession with
purity makes politics impossible, since life in a pluralist democratic order
requires negotiating deals and reaching compromises with avowed enemies."