This is the 4th part of my series on Mao’s On Practice & Contradiction, simplified and explained. This book covers the birth of modern China, and the political and economic philosophy that led to its meteoric rise.
Sections:
1:11 – Part 1: The Two World Outlooks
9:10 – Part 2: The Universality of Contradiction
13:29 – Part 3: The Particularity of Contradiction
26:17 – Part 4: The Principal Contradiction and the Principal Aspect of a Contradiction
35:04 – Part 5: The Identity and Struggle of the Aspects of a Contradiction
40:20 – Part 6: The Place of Antagonism in Contradiction
42:27 – Part 7: Conclusion
Links:
Read the book free: https://dn721903.ca.archive.org/0/items/slavoj-zizek-pdf-archive/Slavoj%20ZÌŒizÌŒek%20PDF%20Library%20%281989%20-%202023%29/2007%2C%20Mao%20on%20Practice%20and%20Contradiction_text.pdf
Buy the book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/1995-on-practice-and-contradiction
Foundations of Leninism: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm
Citations:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution#World_War_I
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution#History_of_evolutionary_thought
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution#First_fossils
5. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/a-braided-stream-not-a-family-tree-how-new-evidence-upends-our-understanding-of-how-humans-evolved
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution
8. https://eyeonhousing.org/2025/03/inadequate-shelter-millions-of-u-s-homes-fail-to-meet-standards
9. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/mortgages-real-estate/11/key-reasons-invest-real-estate.asp
10. https://vietnamembassy-usa.org/basic-page/land-regulations
11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Chinese_Civil_War#
12. https://www.numberanalytics.com/blog/role-of-abstraction-in-scientific-progress
13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War
14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954
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