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On Contradiction - Mao

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🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Red Menace Alyson and Breht discuss

On Contradiction by Mao

Full text here:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm

Video version of this episode here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNnqmbRhcBQ

Check out Bad Mouse’s complementary video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k46uaDvnoYE

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Transcript

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0:00.0

And then.

0:01.0

The Hello everyone and welcome back to Red Menace. Today we are covering on

0:20.2

contradiction by Mao. It's a really fascinating text, one that I don't think

0:24.3

enough people read, so I'm really excited to get into this and explore the philosophy.

0:27.9

This is more, I think it's fair to say it's more philosophy heavy than some of the other texts, but it's, you know, eminently applicable

0:35.4

to organizing which we'll get into in this episode as well.

0:38.9

But before we start, I have a few announcements up top.

0:41.7

One is we are doing a collaboration with Bad Mouse, the

0:45.3

youtuber on this text. So Bad Mouse is making his own video on

0:49.7

contradiction and we are doing this episode on contradiction.

0:53.0

We're going to link to one another's shows

0:54.6

in each other's show notes, and just have

0:56.8

sort of a collaborative effort where you have two resources

0:59.6

to really engage with this text and internalize

1:02.0

it from two different

1:02.5

perspectives using two different mediums if you listen to us on on podcast purely

1:06.7

and and look at bad mouse on YouTube so looking forward to that all that will be in the

1:11.1

show notes of this episode so you can go and click that

1:13.2

after you watch this episode and then as always we're on Twitter at red

1:16.5

menace red underscore menis underscore pod we're on patreon at patreon

1:20.8

dot com forward slash Red Menace.

1:24.0

And a way to help us out if you don't have any money,

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