You’re mom sounds cool. What I find puzzling is the women in my life are the ones that taught me about compassion and empathy. I often tell them these beliefs are because of what they taught me. Brainwashing and propaganda work though. And once people are comfortable enough they get stuck in the “well I did it so everyone else can too.”

I don’t know too much about Maoism admittedly but was thinking about this the other day. That it’s basically impossible for a revolution to occur in the US, even if material conditions worsen to the point where it would theoretically happen. I’m not sure if I believe that or not, but it seems more likely than not atm. And that revolution needs to happen en masse in countries in the Global South while we do everything we can here to make the US ungovernable to exhaust resources that would otherwise be used in fuller effect to suppress those revolutions. Is that kind of getting at the Maoist perspective of the imperial core?