“Socialism seeks to change society for the sake of the masses, but is what it would accomplish truly for their welfare?...What is revolution,but the replacing of one power with another?
Hatsuyo ridiculed the movements of people like the socialists or at best viewed them coolly..

“I can’t,” she said, “hold a fixed philosophy about human society. What I do is gather people around me who feel like I do and live the kind of life that feels right. That is the kind of life that is most realistic and has the greatest meaning.”

One member of our group called that view “escapism,” but I did not agree. I, too, believed it was impossible to change the existing society into one that would be for the benefit of all; neither could I espouse any given ideal for society. But in one thing I differed from Hatsuyo

I felt that even if one did not have an ideal vision of society, one could have one’s work to do. Whether it was successful or not was not our concern...by so doing our lives are rooted in the here and now, not in some far-off ideal goal.” https://libcom.org/history/prison-memoirs-japanese-woman