Why do you think mao refers to the united states and other western democracy's as the forces of imperealisim

during the early 1900s the west (america and europe) started invading and stealing resources from "uncivil" places under the guise of helping the people who lived there while stealing natural resouces to fuel either thier war machine or economies such as the belgians control of the congo and how they massacred the people there to steal their rubber (a valuable resource at the time)

president thomas jefferson hoped that the embargo act of 1807 would the united states by demonstrating to britain and france their dependence on american goods, convincing them to respect american neutrality and stop impressing american seamen. instead, the act had a devastating effect on american trade.