Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

On today's episode, I have back on the show Matthew Furlong from many, many Reve Left

episodes, but specifically our Deep Dive, our Dialectics Deep Dive series, long-time listeners

of Rev Left will be very familiar with Matthew and his contributions to this show.

And he's coming back on once again.

And this time we'll be talking about Mao's work on the correct handling of contradictions among the people.

And we're going to think through Mao's work, but also, of course, as we always try to do, apply it to our present

circumstances and pull out lessons that we can learn today. So, welcome back on the show, Matt.

And for those that might not remember you or might have missed those previous episodes, can you

just go ahead and introduce yourself to the audience? Yeah, this is

Matthew Furlong. Coming back on the show after a gap of about, what, it's been like six

months or something. Just in time almost for the second anniversary of my coming on the show

for the first time. And for the last couple of years, Brett and I have been doing a lot of episodes together.

A lot of them are called a part of a series we sort of came up with called Dialectics Deep Dive,

which is sort of getting into the really kind of little nitty gritty sort of fine logical and conceptual and practical points

of dialectics in its history and its concept or concepts I guess you could say.

We've done another different kinds of couple episodes.

What about the Sopranos?

Sort of stuff like that.

And today we are going to talk about the essay by Mao Zedong from

1957 called On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People. And why are we going to

talk about that, Brett? Well, it's important for a number of reasons. One, I just think it's

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