On The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Furlong from our Dialectics Deep Dive series returns to the show to discuss Chairman Mao's text "On The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People".
Further Resources:
Mao Zedong - Five Essays on Philosophy (1957): https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S15-Five-Essays-on-Philosophy-6th-Printing.pdf
Ai Siqi - "Antagonistic and Non-Antagonistic Contradictions" (1957): https://massline.org/Philosophy/Dialectics/Antagonism-AiSiqi-1957.pdf
Jones Manoel - "Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution" (2020): https://www.blackagendareport.com/western-marxism-loves-purity-and-martyrdom-not-real-revolution
Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson: Geopolitical Economy Hour (2023 -) - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP
World Association for Political Economy: https://wapeweb.org/
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Mi'kmaw learning resources for Atlantic Region dwellers
Atlantic First Nations Tech Services - Mi'kmaw Learning: https://www.afnts.ca/mikmaw/dashboard
Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis - The Language of this Land, Mi'kma'ki (2012): http://cbup.ca/books/sable-francis-language-mikmaki/
Pacifique Buisson - The Mi'kmaw Grammar of Father Pacifique, edited by Bernie Francis and John Hewson (1939/1990; 2016)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. |
| 0:09.2 | On today's episode I have back on the show Matthew Furlong from many many RevLeft episodes |
| 0:14.6 | but specifically our deep dive, our dialectics deep dive series, long time listeners of RevLeft |
| 0:20.3 | will be very familiar with Matthew and his contributions to this show and he's coming |
| 0:24.7 | back on once again and this time we'll be talking about Mao's work on the correct handling |
| 0:29.9 | of contradictions among the people and we're going to think through Mao's work but also |
| 0:36.0 | of course as we always try to do apply it to our present circumstances and pull out lessons |
| 0:42.4 | that we can learn today. |
| 0:43.6 | So welcome back on the show Matt and for those that might not remember you or might have |
| 0:49.5 | missed those previous episodes can you just go ahead and introduce yourself to the audience. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah this is Matthew Furlong coming back on the show after a app of about what it's been |
| 0:59.6 | like six months or something. |
| 1:01.6 | I just in time almost for the second anniversary of my coming on the show for the first time |
| 1:08.3 | and for the last couple of years Brett and I have been doing a lot of episodes together. |
| 1:14.7 | A lot of them are called a part of a series we sort of came up with called dialectics |
| 1:19.7 | deep dive which is sort of getting into the really kind of little nitty gritty sort of |
| 1:25.7 | fine logical and conceptual and practical points of dialectics in its history and its |
| 1:32.5 | concept and concepts I guess you could say. |
| 1:35.6 | We've done another different kind of couple episodes about the sopranos sort of stuff |
| 1:40.7 | like that and today we are going to talk about the essay by Mao Zedong from 1957 called |
| 1:48.5 | on the correct handling of contradictions among the people. |
| 1:52.2 | And why are we going to talk about that Brett? |
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