On Mao Zedong’s Conception Of Contradiction

Mao Zedong’s concept of contradiction is an important category in Mao Zedong’s philosophy,which reflects Mao Zedong’s criticism and absorption of dialectics in traditional Chinese philosophy and the inheritance and development of marxist materialist dialectics.In essence,Mao Zedong’s concept of contradiction refers to the unity of opposites,which is a dynamic correlation,that is,the dynamic relationship between the two sides of the interaction,and an infinite dynamic relationship from the opposition to the unity.No matter in the nature,society or human’s cognition,there is the transformation of the two aspects of the interaction inside all things from opposition to unity,and this dynamic correlation is the contradiction.Mao Zedong’s concept of contradiction has the characteristics of universality and particularity,internality and externality.Mao Zedong’s concept of contradiction inherits marxist materialist dialectics in the aspects of the relationship between universality and particularity of contradiction and the fact that contradiction is the driving force for the development and movement of all things.At the same time,Mao Zedong’s concept of contradiction is also logically innovative.In terms of the particularity of contradictions,Mao Zedong used the word "contradiction" to express various forms in the process of "unity of opposites",such as differences,conflicts,mutual exclusion,etc.In terms of the imbalance of contradiction,Mao Zedong logically distinguished the concepts of main contradiction,non-main contradiction,main aspect and non-main aspect of contradiction,which greatly enriched and developed marxist materialist dialectics.Mao Zedong’s innovative development of the concept of contradiction is of great significance to the theoretical cause of promoting the sinicization and globalization of Marxism,as well as to solving the practical problems of Chinese revolution and construction.Theoretically,Mao Zedong’s concept of contradiction is of great significance to the development of the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the development of marxist theory abroad.In practice,Mao Zedong’s concept of contradiction is of great methodological significance for investigating the main contradiction in contemporary Chinese society,constructing a harmonious socialist society with Chinese characteristics and even a harmonious world,and guiding people’s real life.