On Contradiction - Mao
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Class Struggle and Non-Antagonism
In class society, oftentimes class struggle is really non antagonistic inasmuch as it hasn't broken out into open violence and open class warfare. Under liberalism, there is an attempt to mediate the enmity between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. But then crisis occurs, then change occurs, and suddenly you have revolution. And when revolution occurs, what you are seeing is the contradiction expressed through krela struggle becoming antagonistic. It becomes violent, it becomes rupturous. And it changes into something else entirely. In this antagonistic form, we see society move forward as identity functions, and one is transformed into the other by these open forms of antagonistic contradiction. The insights garnered
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