Beginning with the Perestroika that brought about the downfall of the Soviet Union and the crumbling of its satellites in Eastern Europe, socialism should have been already proven as a historical faux pas. But such is history’s tyranny over the working class that even after the crash of the first-ever dictatorship of the proletariat established in history, socialism continued to be proclaimed by followers of Karl Marx as the main trend in the world. China under Mao Zedong emerged as the new bastion of orthodox Marxism even as its own course, the strategy of the protracted people’s war which called for the “wave by wave” encirclement of the cities through the countryside had been a radical departure from Marxist orthodoxy which, proclaiming as it does the workers as the vanguard class in the revolutionary struggle against the bourgeoisie, calls for the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the cities first.