Tag: course

On criticism and creativity

1. Calls for creativity have emerged as responses to a criticism of the Left being “passé” and “dogmatic.”The command to be creative is being considered seriously for activist practice in response to this criticism, but what does this call achieve? JMS: It is a good policy for any anti-imperialist and anti-fascist formation to pay attention […]

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

The objective of studying dialectical and historical materialism is to provide the proletariat and the people with the materialist-scientific outlook in comprehending nature and society and with the materialist dialectical method in cognition or acquiring knowledge from such social practice as production, class struggle and scientific experiment.

On proleterian stand and outlook

Every communist must understand the three stages of development of the universal theory of proletarian revolution: Marxism, Leninism and Maoism; and learn the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in materialist philosophy, political economy, social science, party building, strategy and tactics and opposing revisionism in socialist society.

On Practice and on Contradiction

Mao wrote On Practice in 1937 in Yenan soon after the Long March and delivered it in a series of lectures on Marxist philosophy. It clarifies its epistemology by explaining the interaction and wave-like advance of social practice and knowledge. It is one of Mao’s major philosophical works in which he made a major contribution to the development of dialectical materialism by elaborating on the unity of opposites in social practice.