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The Two World Outlooks 32  \nII. The Universality of Contradiction 39  \nIII. The Particularity of Contradiction 46  \nIV. The Principal Contradiction and the 67  \nPrincipal Aspect of a Contradiction  \nV. The Identity and Struggle of the Aspects 78  \nof a Contradiction  \nVI. The Place of Antagonism in Contradiction 89  \nVII. Conclusion 93  \nOn the cOrrect handling Of cOntra- 95  \ndictiOns amOng the PeOPle  \nI. Two Different Types of Contradictions 95  \nII. The Suppression of Counterrevolution 116  \nIII. Agriculture Cooperation 121  \nIV. The Question of Industrialists and 127  \nBusinessmen  \nV. The Question of Intellectuals 130  \nVI. The Question of National Minorities 133  \nVII. Overall Planning, All-Around Consid- 135  \neration, and Proper Arrangements  \nVIII. On “Letting a Hundred Flowers Blos- 137  \nsom,” and “Letting a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend,” and “Long-Term Coexistence and Mutual Supervision”  \nIX. Concerning Disturbances Created by 148 Small Numbers of People  \nX. X. Can Bad Things Be Turned into 151 Good Things?  \nXI. XI. The Practice of Economy 154 XII. XII. China’s Path to Industrialization 156 sPeech at the chinese cOmmunist 161 Party’s natiOnal cOnference On PrOPaganda WOrk  \nWhere dO cOrrect ideas cOme frOm? 187  \nOn Practice  \nOn Practice 1  \nOn the Relation Between Knowledge and Practice, Between Knowing and Doing  \nJuly 1937  \nBefore Marx, materialism examined the problem of knowledge apart from the social nature of man and apart from his historical development, and was therefore incapable of understanding the dependence of knowledge on social practice, that is, the dependence of knowledge on production and the class struggle.  \nAbove all, Marxists regard man’s activity in production as the most fundamental practical activity, the determinant of all his other activities. Man’s knowledge depends mainly on his activity in material production, through which he comes gradually to understand the phenomena, the properties and the laws of nature, and the relations between himself and nature; and through his activity in produc-  \n1 There used to be a number of comrades in our Part who were dogmatists and who for a long period rejected the experience of the Chinese revolution, denying the truth that“Marxism is not a dogma but a guide to action” and overawing people with words and phrases from Marxist works, torn out of context. There were also a number of comrades who were empiricists and who for a long period restricted themselves to their own fragmentary experience and did not understand the importance of theory for revolutionary practice or see the revolution as a whole, but worked blindly though industriously. The erroneous ideas of these two types of comrades, and particularly of the dogmatists, caused enormous losses to the Chinese revolution during 1931–34, and  \nFive Essays on Philosophy  \ntion he also gradually comes to understand, in varying degrees, certain relations that exist between man and man. None of this knowledge can be acquired apart from activity in production. 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