One Divides into Two
November 25, 2011
A lively new polemic about the concepts ‘one divides into two’ and ‘two fuse into one’ is unfolding on the philosophical front in this country. This debate is a struggle between those who are for and those who are against the materialist dialectic, a struggle between two conceptions of the world: the proletarian conception and the bourgeois conception. Those who maintain that ‘one divides into two’ is the fundamental law of things are on the side of the materialist dialectic; those who maintain that the fundamental law of things is that ‘two fuse into one’ are against the materialist dialectic. The two sides have drawn a clear line of demarcation between them, and their arguments are diametrically opposed. This polemic is a reflection, on the ideological level, of the acute and complex class struggle taking place in China and in the world.” —Red Flag (Beijing), 21 September 1964
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Which one will you choose?
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November 29, 2011 at 10:50 pm
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November 30, 2011 at 2:19 am
“…a struggle between two conceptions of the world”… But do we really face a struggle between two positions? Or three? For, to the two traditional positions you adduce there corresponds a third, neither simply bourgeois nor proletarian; that is, the solution of the bureaucracy.
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