Mao’s Contributions to Marxism and Dialectical Materialism

• Authors: Allinson Robert Elliott
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article raises the question of whether the thought of Mao Zedong is simply de-rivative from Marxist thought, whether it represents a deviation from Marxist thought, or whether it contains any original contribution to Marxist thought. It discusses such topics as Mao’s concepts of the principal and the non-principal aspect of the contradic-tion, Mao’s concept of permanent revolution, Mao’s replacement of the industrial prole-tariat with the peasant farmer class, Mao’s inversion of the classical Marxist position of the base determining the superstructure, Mao’s concept of the complementarity of oppo-sites, Mao’s concept of antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions, Mao’s reduc-tion of all laws of dialectic to one law.

Keywords

EN

Mao Zedong; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; proletariat; dialectical materialism; the Yijing or The Book of Changes; base; superstructure; permanent revolution; complementarity of opposites; theory and practice

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 203-231

Contributors

author

Allinson Robert Elliott

• Soka University of America, Gandhi Hall 404, 1 University Drive, Aliso Viejo, California 92656, USA