While deeply sympathetic to the idea of progress as a problem-solving and nonteleological process, this commentary takes issue with the slightly harmonistic and cognitivistic character of the process. What seems to get insufficient consideration in Philip Kitcher’s approach are the power-driven structural and functional obstacles to progress. Moral progress in terms of problem-solving, then, is not an innocent attempt to move from ignorance to knowledge and take over the other’s perspective. Rather, moral progress depends on a broader social context and is triggered by the manifold dynamics of social change; it is brought about by social struggles that react to more or less deeply seated structural contradictions, dysfunctionalities, and crises of the respective social order.