On Contradiction
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On Contradiction is a 1937 essay by the Chinese Communist revolutionary Mao Zedong. Along with On Practice, it forms the philosophical underpinnings of the political ideology that would later become M
Cover art of the 1967 English version.
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Dialectical materialism
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Dialectical materialism is a philosophy of nature and philosophy of science, developed in the late 19th century based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. By synthesising Georg Wilhelm F
On Contradiction
…underpinnings of the political ideology that would later become Maoism. It was written in August 1937, as an interpretation of the philosophy of dialectical materialism, while Mao was at his guerrilla base in Yan'an. Mao suggests that all movement and life is a result of contradiction. Mao separates his paper into…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich Engels
Georgi Plekhanov
Vladimir Lenin