In The Next American Revolution, Grace Lee Boggs talks about her early activism work during the 1940’s as a member of the workers party. The Workers Party was a Trotskyist organization, in other words you can say they have socialist ideals. The way Boggs describes socialism seems to be the solution to oppression. “ Capitalism, we argued, reduces the workers to fragment, robbing them of their natural acquired powers. It alienates them from their species and communal essence. Socialism, by contrast, means the reappropriation by the oppressed of their human and social essence,” (60). She reveals that socialism to be the true equalizer for those who are oppressed economically and culturally. As I readed Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Some of
