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2	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957)`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`We stand firmly for peace and against war. However, if the imperialists insist on unleashing another war, we should not be afraid of it. Our attitude on this question is the same as our attitude towards any disturbance: first, we are against it; second, we are not afraid of it.`
3	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., p. 12.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`This democratic method of resolving contradictions among the people was epitomized in 1942 in the formula “unity, criticism, unity”. To elaborate, it means starting from the desire for unity, resolving contradictions through criticism or struggle and arriving at a new unity on a new basis. In our experience this is the correct method of resolving contradictions among the people. `
4	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., p. 14.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`In ordinary circumstances, contradictions among the people are not antagonistic. However, if they are not handled properly, or if we relax our vigilance and lower our guard, antagonism may arise. In a socialist country, a development of this kind is usually only a localized and temporary phenomenon. The reason is that the system of exploitation of man by man has been abolished and the interests of the people are the same. `
5	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., p. 15.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`Communists must use the democratic method of persuasion and education when working among the laboring people and must on no account resort to commandism or coercion. The Chinese Communist Party faithfully adheres to this Marxist-Leninist principle. `
6	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., p. 18.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`Marxist philosophy holds that the law of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe. This law operates universally, whether in the natural world, in human society, or in man’s thinking. Between the opposites in a contradiction there is at once unity and struggle, and it is this that impels things to move and change. Contradictions exist everywhere, but they differ in accordance with the different nature of different things. In any given phenomenon or thing, the unity of opposites is conditional, temporary and transitory, and hence relative, whereas the struggle of opposites is absolute. `
7	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., p. 75.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt. `
8	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., p. 8.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`The organs of state must practice democratic centralism, they must rely on the masses and their personnel must serve the people. `
9	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., pp. 10-11.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`Within the ranks of the people, democracy is correlative with centralism and freedom with discipline. They are the two opposites of a single entity, contradictory as well as united, and we should not one-sidedly emphasize one to the denial of the other. Within the ranks of the people, we cannot do without freedom, nor can we do without discipline; we cannot do without democracy, nor can we do without centralism. This unity of democracy and centralism, of freedom and discipline, constitutes our democratic centralism. Under this system, the people enjoy extensive democracy and freedom, but at the same time they have to keep within the bounds of socialist discipline. `
10	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957). 1st pocket ed., pp. 1-2.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities - these are the basic guarantees of the sure triumph of our cause. `
11	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., pp. 32-33.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all plain sailing and easy success, without difficulties and setbacks or the exertion of tremendous efforts. `
12	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., pp. 49-50.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land. Different forms and styles in art should develop freely and different schools in science should contend freely. We think that it is harmful to the growth of art and science if administrative measures are used to impose one particular style of art or school of thought and to ban another. Questions of right and wrong in the arts and sciences should be settled through free discussion in artistic and scientific circles and through practical work in these fields. They should not be settled in summary fashion. `
13	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., pp. 66-67. `,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`We must learn to look at problems all-sidedly, seeing the reverse as well as the obverse side of things. In given conditions, a bad thing can lead to good results and a good thing to bad results. `
14	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), first pocket ed.. p. 2.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`Two types of social contradictions - those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people themselves confront us. The two are totally different in their nature. `
15	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), first pocket ed. p. 47.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`By over-all planning, we mean planning which takes into consideration the interests of the 600 million people of our country. In drawing up plans, handling affairs or thinking over problems, we must proceed from the fact that China has a population of 600 million people, and we must never forget this fact. `
16	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1957), p. 3.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`The contradictions between the enemy and us are antagonistic contradictions. Within the ranks of the people, the contradictions among the working people are non-antagonistic, while those between the exploited and the exploiting classes have a non-antagonistic aspect in addition to an antagonistic aspect. `
17	`Mao Zedong`,`On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (February 27, 1959), 1st pocket ed., p. 44.`,`http://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm`,`Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture.`