I think of left sectarianism kind of like this:
I refuse to work with my cellmate to escape from the prison I’m in. Why? Because once we’ve broken out of our cell, evaded the guards, escaped the prison grounds, avoided detection by the police, and escaped the country, he wants to open a restaurant while I want to be a farmer.
It’s more like:
I want to escape from prison but my cell mate keeps screaming and banging his head against the walls and making a bunch of noise, and sometimes he rats me out to the guards. There’s a group of hardcore prisoners here who specialize in breaking people out and have done it 40 times successfully. I’m going to leave my weird cell mate here and go with the guys who know what they are doing and have this down to a science.
We are not destined to have the exact same sectarian squabbles that previous generations of leftists had in wildly different contexts.
