Ma's Iterative Process of Knowledge and Practice

Mau writes that every process, whether in the realm of nature or of society, progresses and develops by reason of its internal contradictions and struggle. And the movement of human knowledge should also progress and develop along with it. True revolutionary leaders must not only be good at correcting their ideas, theories, plans or programmes when errors are discovered, but when a certain objective process has already progressed from one stage to another. That is to say, they must insure the proposed new revolutionary tasks and new working programmes correspond to the new changes in situation. In social practice, the process of coming into being, developing and passing away is infinite. The sum total of innumerable relative truths constitutes absolute truth. As man's