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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
In On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, Mao discusses the contradictions still existing in socialist society. According to Mao: [3]: 168 In socialist society, the basic contradiction is still the contradiction between productive relations and productivity and between the superstructure and the economic foundation. However ...
On Practice, along with Mao's On Contradiction, elevated his reputation as a Marxist theoretician. [2]: 38 Both works became widely read in the USSR after Mao was celebrated in the Eastern Bloc for China's intervention in the Korean War. [2]: 39 On Practice laid the theoretical foundation for Mao's subsequent slogan, "seek truth from facts."
These revisions are apparent in the 1951 version of On Contradiction. "In the 1930s, when Mao talked about contradiction, he meant the contradiction between subjective thought and objective reality. In Dialectal Materialism of 1940, he saw idealism and materialism as two possible correlations between subjective thought and objective reality. In ...
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 and the Kuomintang are the subject of the third volume of the selected works, which contains selections from writings ...
Mao then envisioned the disappearance of the party, as the Marxist theory suggested the coming of a stateless society when communism is achieved, and even though a coercive party was needed to suppress counter-revolutionaries, he proposed to streamline the party and the bureaucracy.
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.
Mao Zedong provides a significant focus on the idea of self-criticism, dedicating a whole chapter of the Little Red Book to the issue. Mao saw "conscientious practice" of self-criticism as a quality that distinguished the Chinese Communist Party from other parties. Mao championed self-criticism saying "dust will accumulate if a room is not ...