Political Science · Western Political Thought
Which thinker differentiated between Antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions?
AConfucius
BMarx
CHegel
DMao Zedong ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Mao Zedong — Mao Zedong drew the distinction between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions.
Explanation
★Mao Zedong drew the distinction between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions.
★He set this out in his 1957 essay On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People.
★Antagonistic contradictions are those between the people and their enemies, settled by struggle or force.
★Non-antagonistic contradictions are among the people themselves, settled by persuasion and debate.
★Mao adapted Marxist dialectics to the conditions of revolutionary China.
★Marx and Hegel worked with dialectical contradiction but not this specific political distinction.
★So this classification of contradictions is Mao's contribution.
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