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Woke, Mao, and the American Cultural Revolution

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What Is a Good Thing?

Every disturbance can be regarded as having a dual character. The Hungarian incident was not a good thing, except the Hungarians who got out from under it. Hungary is now more consolidated than ever and all the other countries in the socialist camp have also learned a lesson. We stand firmly for peace and against war but if the imperialists insist on unleashing another war, we should not be afraid of it. In given conditions, each of the two opposing aspects of a contradiction invariably transforms itself into its opposite - that's how Hegel works.

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