This book, banned in China, traces the history of all the major contradictions within the Communist Party of China both during and after the period of Mao Zedong’s leadership. It explains why the genuine Left was unable to carry on Chairman Mao’s behest to continue the revolution under the conditions of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and then examines the contradictions between the different groupings of capitalist-roaders who seized power after Mao’s death; the struggle between them, on the one hand, and their collusion, on the other, to strip the workers and peasants of their rights and to suppress them under a bourgeois state machine of inherent violence.