Kiwi, Marx

Habermas argues that we will never be able to have eclecticism; we will never be able to compromise with one another and be both. We are all neoconservatives. It is the critics vs the public. We are wither this or that and we both have our different ideas about one another and will never be able to reach ground zero. We will never be able to compromise with each other on one idea. Each party believes that he or she is living the right way and the others are doing it wrong and there is no convincing. Habermas says that there isn’t even hope for eclecticism because it is not possible ad never will be possible for everyone to come together at ground zero.
We create something in our culture to deal with the divide weather its dealing with: religion, politics, or even little things such as sororities.. However after reading Marxs I thought it was interesting when he states that, Within this class this cleavage can even develop into a certain opposition and hostility between the two parts, but when ever a practical collision occurs in which the class itself is endangered they automatically vanish.” (38) I think that Marx’s makes a very good point of this division we have in our society but when catastrophe happen for example like 9/11 we are no longer a divided society, we are all America. For example, republicans and democrats… it is, US vs THEM... however when we have a mass destruction like 9/11 during that time we all become one.. we all refer to ourselves as “America.” Another example of this that comes to mind is for instance, sororities. If i'm in NCM and someone else is in Kappa Delta we refer to ourselves as two different groups but when a Kappa Delta and I (NCM) play Tampa in basketball we refer to ourselves as “Rollins”
I think that this was a very interesting point that Marx made and I thought it was really neat how I right away thought of Habermas and how Marx would say that Habermas is wrong in a way because we will never have a chance of coming together and agreeing (as one) However from my two examples above, it shows that there are times like those that we do refer to ourselves as one. But here is my question, is the only time we are able to come together and comprise with one another is when we are at war? Or when we are competing? Why does it have to be we only come together when mass destructions are happening or competition of us vs them? I may be looking at this totally wrong but this again was what came to mind when I read.