The Importance of Studying Contradictions

Mao refers to dogmatists as the opposite of dilaticians and I want people to really internalize this truth. Our critics most of whom clearly do not understand our positions in any meaningful way whatsoever love to call Marxist dogmatists. It will always be easier to just grab random ideas you subjectively prefer out of the air or to lazily regurgitate third-hand criticisms of theories you don't understand. Not only is it easier it often comes with the added bonus of obtaining a smug sense of superiority without having to do the work to earn it. On other sides of the radical left we see this laziness manifest in the form of putting abstract ideas ahead of materialist analysis