Richard M. Rorty Quote

One reason the cultural Left will have a hard time transforming itself into a political Left is that, like the Sixties Left, it still dreams of being rescued by an angelic power called the people. In this sense, the people is the name of a redemptive preternatural force, a force whose demonic counterpart is named power or the system. The cultural Left inherited the slogan Power to the people from the Sixties Left, whose members rarely asked about how the transference of power was supposed to work. This question still got unasked.