“It seems to me that, in practice at least, one of the things that has a great deal to do with sectarianism is somehow connecting your personal identity to a set of ideas, so that if anybody challenges something that you think, it is taken as this devastating attack upon your being. [. . .] [I]f we start down the associated slippery slope, 'the personal is political' can get exaggerated, can be distorted, and eventually can come to mean almost the opposite of what was intended, that the essence of politics is personal. The meaning has been almost exactly reversed, so that now we begin to have the feeling that everything is a function of personal, individual, totally separate, totally atomized choices.” Michael Albert, Trajectory of Change: Activist Strategies for Social Transformations, Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002, p. 105, 108-9.