Slavoj zizek is a slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. More important, mao produced the major works that synthesized his own experience of revolutionary struggle and his vision of how the revolution should be carried forward in the context of the united front. The present research explores the connection between maos philosophy and his political ideas. Volume 3 on policy, practice and contradiction zedong, mao, tsetung, mao, conners, shawn on. Badiou is interviewed on the question by an anonymous chinese philosopher, maintaining that mao continues to provide a model for dialectical thought, if not for a. Other articles where on contradiction is discussed. Toward the second united front january 1935july 1937 maos road to power. Karl, mao zedong and china in the twentiethcentury world.
Mao tsetung, the marxist lord of misrule slovoj zizek v one of the most devious traps which lurk in wait fo r marxists is the search fo r the moment of the fall, when things took the wrong tum in the history of marxism. The largescale publication of quotations from chairman mao tsetung is a vital measure for enabling the broad masses to grasp mao. Once mao tsetungs thought is grasped by the broad masses, it becomes an inexhaustible source of strength and a spiritual atom bomb of infinite power. Maos legacy, and the multistage movement to criticize the gang of four is testimony to this. Despite the flood of mao s previously unknown works released by red guards during the cultural revolution, no preliberation versions of his celebrated philosophical essays on contradiction and on practice came to light from that source. Project muse history, contradiction, and the apotheosis.
Slavoj zizek on practice and contradiction by mao zedong. Chinese theorists allege that mao tsetung applied the. Mao zedong, legalism and confucianism similarities and. Zizeks introduction is typical of him thought provoking, irritating, and selfplagiarising in equal measure. Here i will attempt to make understanding mao s tsetung on contradiction easier for someone new to it to understand.
Chairman mao quotations from chairman mao tsetung 1927 1964 commonly known as the little red book, the original collection of chairman mao s. Mao tsetung 1948 mao army occupies yenan 1949 01 october, china adopts the gregorian calendar after a declaration by mao 1949 chinese communist insurgents led by mao take power 1949 mao s red army conquers tentsin. The doctrine of contradiction and the political philosophy. On contradiction is a 1937 essay by the chinese communist revolutionary mao zedong. Lenin often called this law the essence of dialectics.
On contradiction in the light of mao tsetungs essay on dialectical materialism, the china quarterly cq. On practice and contradiction by mao zedong, 9781844675876, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Selected excerpts with questions from the little red book. Maos on contradiction, maohegelmaodeleuze purdue epubs. It can be quite difficult to understand dialectics given the nature of the topic and the difficult language that is used. It was entitled on practice because its stress was on exposing the dogmatist kind of subjectivism, which belittles practice. Jan 29, 2007 on practice and contradiction by mao zedong, 9781844675876, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. In his phenomenology ofspirit, hegel introduces his. Quotations from chairman mao tsetungthe correct handling of. Mao zedong was the foremost chinese communist leader of the 20th century and the.
Mao tsetung on guerrilla warfare three days supply of rice. Major events in the life of a revolutionary leader all terms appearing in bold are included in the glossary. Mar 27, 2011 on the correct handling of contradictions among the people february 27, 1957, 1 st pocket ed. In the as christ needed pauls betrayal in for christianity to emerge as a universal church recall that, among the twelve apostles. The approach taken by mao on contradiction and how to resolve contradiction differed considerably from stalin, lenin, or even marx. It was based on the nanjing nanking dialect of mandarin and best suited for eng. Mao tsetungs famous 1937 essay on contradiction is regarded as a significant attempt to redefine and reapply marxs notion of a dialectical. The foundations of mao zedongs political thought 19171935. The man stands, raises a water bottle to his lips, rinses his mouth, spits out the water. Lenin said, dialectics in the proper sense is the study of contradiction in the very essence of objects. His rise to power was based on a political philosophy that was shaped by experiences from his youth and growing to.
Mao zedong was born on december 26, 1893 in a small village. On contradiction mao zedong august 1937 the law of contradiction in things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the basic law of materialist dialectics. Mao zedong expressed his views on the policy in his famous february 1957 speech on the correct handling of contradictions among the people. Come up with at least three reasons to justify your position. The theory of contradiction, which has roots in marxism and chinese tradition, is central to the philosophy of mao. Mao focuses on antagonistic contradiction as the struggle of opposites. Chairman mao quotations from chairman mao tsetung 1927 1964 commonly known as the little red book, the original collection of chairman maos 18931976 quotations was first published in china in may 1964. Project muse history, contradiction, and the apotheosis of. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. In this text, mao follows in the footsteps of marx and lenin, endorsing the dialecticalmaterialist philosophy that knowledge is wrought through practice. The ideas contained in this essay were presented by comrade mao tsetung in a lecture at the antijapanese military and political college in yenan. Other articles where on the correct handling of contradictions among the people is discussed. When mao zedong proclaimed the founding of the peoples republic of china prc on october 1, 1949, the chinese communist party ccp stood before the tremendous task of rebuilding the state on the basis of sovietstyle communist principles. Mao tsetungs famous 1937 essay on contradiction is regarded as a.
Pdf on sep 1, 2018, kenneth surin and others published maos on. The contradiction between exploiter and exploited, which exists between the national bourgeoisie and the working class, is an antagonistic one. Quotations from chairman mao beijing foreign languages press, 1972. My first time reading mao, this book contains a number of essays with an introduction by slavoj zizek, including the key texts on practice and on contradiction. Badious apparently unrepentant maoism has been one of the most controversial, if misinterpreted, elements of his thought. Quotations from chairman mao tsetungthe correct handling. The largescale publication of quotations from chairman mao tsetung is a. On the correct handling of contradictions among the people.
Mao zedong on contradictions under socialism revisited. Despite the flood of maos previously unknown works released by red guards during the cultural revolution, no preliberation versions of his celebrated philosophical essays on contradiction and on practice came to light from that source. And contradiction simply means the struggle of opposing forces within an entity. The law of contradiction in things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the basic law of materialist dialectics. Mao zedong was born on december 26, 1893 in a small. This book contains four essays on philosophy by comrade mao. Here i will attempt to make understanding maos tsetung on contradiction easier for someone new to it to understand. Slavoj zizek, on practice and contradiction by mao zedong, pdf, verso, 199 pages, january 2007, 9781844675876 slavoj zizek, introduction. Buy a cheap copy of on practiceon contradiction book by mao zedong. This gap in the red guard material may have been viewed as significant, confirming suspicions held by some that there were in fact no preliberation. New and annotated translations of philosophical essays written by mao zedong in 1937, which have come to be regarded as a cornerstone in the development of chinese marxism. Along with on practice it forms the philosophical underpinnings of the political ideology that would later become maoism. The fruit of maos practical revolutionary effortswas the contradiction of a revolution in command. This essay on philosophy was written by comrade mao tsetung after his essay on practice and with the same object of.
He characteristically writes about topics all over the place, but he does make important points. The following quotations represent party chairman mao zedongs perspective on being a communist. On the correct handling of contradictions among the people february 27, 1957, 1 st pocket ed. Taking as the point of departure the innate contradiction implicit in the founding process of the.
To discuss contradiction is a 1937 essay by the chinese communist revolutionary mao zedong. If you should be so incline, you can read maos on contradiction here. The chinese also claim that mao developed the concept of contradictions among t h e peopleby. On practice and on contradiction are included in the selected works of mao.
Why has the name of mao tse tung been changed to mao zedong. May 16, 2016 mao zedongs worldview, on the contrary, was based on marxismleninism and, as a result, according to him the final purpose of a communist state was to eliminate class distinctions through violent class struggle and, when this struggle had been won and all reactionary forces had been extirpated, to abolish the communist party and the state. In studying this law, therefore, we cannot but touch upon a. Mao zedong thought project gutenberg selfpublishing. That is to say, antagonism is one form, but not the only form, of the struggle of opposites. Badiou is interviewed on the question by an anonymous chinese philosopher, maintaining that mao continues to provide a model for dialectical thought, if not for a historical. Maos theory of contradiction, then, gives a clear and definite place to violent struggle and also puts limit on it. He stressed the importance of resolving nonantagonistic contradictions by methods of persuasion, but he stated. For him struggle characterizes all natural and social phenomena. Fifty years ago, on 16 may 1966 communist leader mao zedong launched the cultural revolution. Mao zedong 1 18931976 mao zedong led chinas communist revolution in the 1920s and 1930s and became chairman chief of state of the peoples republic of china in 1949, an office he held until 1959. But, in the concrete conditions existing in china, such arl antagonistic contradiction, if properly handled, can be transformed into a nonantagonistic one andresolved in. It was written in august 1937, as an interpretation of the. Quotations from chairman mao on being a communist in china 1937.
Mao stresses the understanding of political and cultural life, in addition to the material focus of marx. It is the purpose of this article to present such a study, drawing on several methodological approaches designed to highlight. During this period mao clearly established himself as a marxist theoretician and produced the bulk of the works which would later be canonized into the thought of mao zedong. Karl, mao zedong and china in the twentiethcentury world duke university press. Click download or read online button to get on practice and contradiction book now. In the philosophy of mao zedong, one is always confronted with the decision. It is my expectation that the basic values of maos politics. For a detailed analysis of maos writings on philosophy from 1937, see nick.
Mao tsetung was a chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. Yet despite their desire to create a new china, communist leaders drew on old political and social traditions which brought about a hybrid of ancient. The universality of contradiction the universality of contradiction is well known, this is the basis. In 1937, when on contradiction was first delivered as a speech, the chinese communist party, led by mao zedong, in response to an attack by japan, had temporarily allied with the guomindang, the. On practice and contradiction download ebook pdf, epub. On practice explains mao zedongs philosophy concerning the acquisition of knowledge. Mao and his two younger brothers were given a taste of peasant life as they transported manure to fertilize their fathers paddy fields. Versos release of maos writings is noteworthy in having an introduction by slavoj zizek.
Mao zedong was born to a welloff peasant farmer in hunan province, subsequently the site of his celebrated investigation of the local peasant move ment. He is a professor at the european graduate school, international director of the birkbeck institute for the humanities, birkbeck college. The struggle with this contradiction will continue. Preliberation texts 643 study of on contradiction and on practice comparing earlier and unofficial texts with the standardized and official postliberation versions. In the physical world, the development and resolution of contradictions is an. View mao zedong thought research papers on academia.
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