Open your eyes, you leave the house. You go to buy the groceries and everyone except you seems to have a personal space that extends meters away from their body. You can feel them brushing against you... As you leave the supermarket you see a man handing out newspapers on the corner. He shouts: »This focusing on our own oppression is embodied in the concept of identity politics. We believe that the most profound and potentially the most radical politics come directly out of our own identity as black women, as opposed to working to end somebody else’s oppression… We are socialists because we believe that work must be organized for the collective benefit of those who do the work, and not for the profit of the bosses. We are not convinced, however, that a socialist revolution that is not also a feminist and anti-racist revolution will guarantee our liberation. We need to articulate the real class situations of persons who are not merely faceless, sexless workers, but for whom racist and sexual oppression are significant determinants in their working lives.« Good point, you think. Close your eyes.