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Chapter 10 For Truly Great Men, Look to This Age Alone: Was Mao Zedong a New Emperor is another trash chapter that tries to make parallels to Mao and past Chinese emperor's, despite criticizing this method from Jiang Chung And Jon Halliday. Thoroughly dry and boring read so far. Seems this will be the non-climatic conclusion of this book.

Chapter 9 Mao the Man and Mao the Icon is utter trash. The essay dives into the tired old "cult" crap. It shows how Mao always hated the elevation of himself and even commented how it should be "deleted" and yet somehow the author tries to paint him as a Machiavellian using it for his aims. It also deals with just plain rumor mongering. A worthless chapter.

Chapter 8 deals with Mao & gender. Even prior to Communism young Mao was a champion of women's rights. In the Jiangxi Soviet and the PRC women still had a long way to go but their lives did substantially change. After his death their status and material conditions deteriorated.

Chapter 7 deals with Mao and his dealing with intellectuals. The author here correctly surmises that Mao's relationship is one that is dialectical, in that intellectuals have much to teach the masses but much to learn themselves. However, the author's own bourgeois bias is present in that he thinks the intellectuals still constituted an elite.

Chapter VI - This last chapter concludes with the charge that the Second International in the overwhelming majority of it's officials have succumb to opportunism. This chapter directly quotes the opportunists who have totally ignored the lessons of the Commune and mistake seizure of power with gaining numbers in parliament. They strawman the arguments of revolutionaries such as Pannekoek, Luxemburg and Lenin.

Chapter V - Here Lenin through Marx and Engels criticizes the Lassallean notion of socialism as one in which wages are paid for the "full product of labor" as a reserve must be set aside for the reproduction of and expansion of production. Lenin ascribes the "lower phase of communism" to be synonymous with socialism. Socialism is not full equality but the ending of exploitation, certain inequalities will exist.

Chapter IV- This Chapter Lenin comments on various observations and criticisms Friedrich Engels makes of his Party the SPD in Germany in regards to their relation to the State. In a letter to Karl Kautsky he criticizes a Draft of the Efurt Programme which alludes to the peaceful seizure of power ignoring the political question of German absolutism.

Chapter III - With each particular historical event universal lessons reveal themselves, the Paris Commune is no different. The historic lesson learned here was the necessity of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the necessity to "smash" the state, and not merely take possession of it. He also begins to see the possibility of unity b/w workers & peasants