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On Contradiction, along with Mao's text On Practice, elevated Mao's reputation as a Marxist theoretician. [12]: 37 It became a foundational text of Mao Zedong Thought. [4]: 9 After Mao was celebrated in the Eastern Bloc following China's intervention in the Korean War, both texts became widely read in the USSR. [12]: 38
Mao also discussed frugality and productivity in the economic development of China, writing, "It is a great contradiction for all cadres and all people to always think of our country as a big socialist country, but also a poor country with economic backwardness. To make our country prosperous and strong, it will take decades of frugal ...
The first volume covers the period of 1926 to 1936 with selections related to the revolutionary civil wars in China. The second volume begins with the philosophical work by Mao, On Contradiction and contains writings from the years 1937 to 1938 related to the war against Japan. Selections discussing military strategy against both the Japanese ...
On Practice expands on Mao's criticism of dogmatism in his 1930 essay, Oppose Book Worship. [3]: 96–97 The text begins with Mao's emphasis on practice over theory, and states, "Marxists hold that man's social practice alone is the criterion of the truth of his knowledge of the external world."
The Continuous Revolution Theory is rooted in Mao's thoughts regarding the nature of contradiction. He argues that, since contradictions within society between revolutionary and reactionary elements can be expected to continue for a long time, it is necessary to work continuously toward the progressive fulfillment of the revolutionary program.
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Mao states that prior to China engaging in communism, it had tried to learn from Western countries, as Japan. However the Western imperialism made that impossible because they were formerly aggressive states. That requires cognitive dissonance to even entertain the notion that democratic reform was desirable. The on-going aggression at the time ...
Mao starts off the book by critiquing the "defeatist exponents of the theory of national subjugation". [3] He argues that because of the creation of the Second United Front and national "perseverance" the Japanese have failed to achieve a victory through mobile warfare and that China was now engaged in a "protracted war". [ 3 ]