Leftist Reading: On Practice and Contradiction Part 2

Leftist Reading

Episode 78:

This week we’re continuing 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 - This Week]
3. On Practice: On the Relation between Knowledge and Practice, between Knowing and Doing - 00:36

[Part 3-5?]
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?]
10. On the Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People

[Part 11?
11. Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?
12. Talk on Questions of Philosophy

Footnotes:
1) 07:14
V. I. Lenin, ‘Conspectus of Hegel’s The Science of Logic’, Collected Works, Russian edition, Moscow, 1958, vol. XXXVIII, p. 205.

2) 08:03
See Karl Marx, ‘Theses on Feuerbach’, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Selected Works, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1958, vol. II, p. 403, and V. I. Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1952, pp. 134–36.

3) 10:19
[San Kuo Yen Yi (Tales of the Three Kingdoms) is a famous Chinese historical novel by Lo Kuan-chung (written between the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries).]

4) 13:05
Lenin, ‘Conspectus of Hegel’s The Science of Logic’, p. 161.

5) 25:14
‘In order to understand, it is necessary empirically to begin understanding, study, to rise from empiricism to the universal’ (Lenin, ‘Conspectus of Hegel’s The Science of Logic’, p. 197).

6) 28:33
V. I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done?, in Collected Works, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961, vol. V, p. 369.

7) 31:07
Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, p. 141.

8) 31:23
J. V. Stalin, ‘The Foundations of Leninism’, in Problems of Leninism, Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954, p. 31.

9) 37:38
See Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, pp. 129–36.