To the extent that individual opinions matter in a society where working class power has been totally annihilated, just talking to people, sharing the experiences of people who lived through socialist revolutions can be very moving to liberals. My reevaluation of Mao from decades of being told he was a monster came from the teary-eyed testimonies of women sold as chattel to landlords in their teens talking about how the communists liberated them, made them equal, and taught them to read.