Leftist Reading: On Practice and Contradiction Part 10

Leftist Reading

Episode 86:

This week we’re continuing with On Practice and Contradiction by Mao Zedong
The two halves of the book are available online here:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm

The previous episode that already covered chapter 2 of this book can be found here:
https://www.abnormalmapping.com/leftist-reading-rss/2020/8/31/guest-leftist-reading-oppose-book-worship

[Part 1]
1. A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire

[Bonus 1, from the archives]
2. Oppose Book Worship

[Part 2]
3. On Practice: On the Relation between Knowledge and Practice, between Knowing and Doing

[Part 3 - 6]
4. On Contradiction

[Part 6]
5. Combat Liberalism
6. The Chinese People Cannot Be Cowed by the Atom Bomb
7. US Imperialism Is a Paper Tiger

[Part 7]
8. Concerning Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
9. Critique of Stalin’s Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR

[Part 8]
10. On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People
Section 1-2
[Part 9]
Section 3-8

[Part 10 - This Week]
10. On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People
Section 9 - 00:15
Section 10 - 05:03
Section 11 - 09:56
Section 12 - 14:12
11. Where Do Correct Ideas Come From? - 20:22

[Part 11-12?]
12. Talk on Questions of Philosophy

Footnotes:
1) 07:16
Lao Tzu, chapter LVIII.