MAO’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO MARXISM AND DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
MAO’S CONTRIBUTIONS TO MARXISM AND DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
Author(s): Robert Elliott AllinsonSubject(s): History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk i Fundacja Filozofia na Rzecz Dialogu
Keywords: Mao Zedong; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; proletariat; dialectical materialism; the Yijing or The Book of Changes; base; superstructure; permanent revolution; complementa
Summary/Abstract: This article raises the question of whether the thought of Mao Zedong is simply de-rivative from Marxist thought, whether it represents a deviation from Marxist thought, or whether it contains any original contribution to Marxist thought. It discusses such topics as Mao’s concepts of the principal and the non-principal aspect of the contradic-tion, Mao’s concept of permanent revolution, Mao’s replacement of the industrial prole-tariat with the peasant farmer class, Mao’s inversion of the classical Marxist position of the base determining the superstructure, Mao’s concept of the complementarity of oppo-sites, Mao’s concept of antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions, Mao’s reduc-tion of all laws of dialectic to one law.
Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 203-231
- Page Count: 29
- Language: English
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