Mao’s works are criminally underrated. He does such a good job of providing a concrete example of how learning from the great wisdom of Lenin and Stalin in their hindsight of the October Revolution, in addition to Marx and Engels (and let us not forget the many anarchist intellectuals who influenced Mao as well, especially in his early years) all helped in carrying out a successful socialist revolution and an anti-colonial war simultaneously. Not to mention, we also get a window through Mao’s writing of nearly 5 entire decades of an active account of fostering the development of socialism from early organizing through anti-feudal wars, through civil war, through anti-colonial war, through to a victorious socialist revolutionary war, and post-war state function. Just such a valuable archive that reaches so many different topics and scenarios.