Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 23. September 20, 1976
Warning About Soviet Path
Warning About Soviet Path
When the Kruschev clique seized power in the Soviet Union, Chairman Mao aroused revolutionary people the world over to the threat these revisionists posed to the struggle for socialism.
But Mao Tsetung was not only a man of revolutionary action. He also had deep learning which embraced diverse fields such as economics, politics, philosophy, art and culture and military affairs. All aspects of Marxism were enriched by his thinking: the theory of the party, state and revolution; the development of a people's army and people's war, the theory of building socialism and philosophy.
In this article I will only deal with some of his most important developments of Marxism.
Underlying all of Mao Tsetung's creative developments of Marxism-Leninism was his penetrating grasp of Marxist philosophy, in particular his insistence on the primacy of practice and development through contradiction. In consequence, his thinking was distinguished by a rigid adherence to principle combined with an unprecedented flexibility and anti-dogmatism. Many of his writings flay those who reason from abstract concepts rather than an investigation of the facts. His constant advice was: "Seek truth from the facts".