S1: For Mao, dialectical materialism was not a static doctrine but a living method of analysis.
He saw contradiction as the driving force of all development, both in nature and society.
P. Mao’s writings, particularly On Contradiction and On Practice, reveal how he applied dialectical materialism to questions of strategy, organization, and ideology.
Q. He believed that only by identifying and resolving these contradictions could China advance toward socialism.
R. This conviction shaped his insistence that the Chinese Revolution could not simply replicate the Russian path but had to grow out of China’s own realities: chiefly, the semi-colonial, semi-feudal structure of its economy and the centrality of the peasantry.
S. Through this lens, Mao emphasized the dynamic balance between opposites: theory and practice, leadership and mass line, reform and revolution, centralization and decentralization.
S2: Dialectical materialism thus became the cornerstone of Mao’s political philosophy, guiding both his revolutionary tactics and his vision of continuous struggle within socialism itself.