Leftist Reading: On Practice and Contradiction Part 9

Leftist Reading

Episode 85:

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 - This Week]
10. On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People
Section 3 - 0:34
Section 4 - 9:20
Section 5 - 14:04
Section 6 - 19:54
Section 7 - 22:08
Section 8 - 25:04

[Part 10]
10. On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People
11. Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?

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