Status Updates From Five Essays on Philosophy

Ok it is so so awesome to read about dialectics in this way after just finishing taking physics for the first time… there is so much poetic harmony between laws of physical motion and change and the dialectical historical process of change. Mao basically says this explicitly but it’s so beautiful I don’t have another word for it

Discover the truth through practice, and again through practice verify and develop the truth. Start from perceptual knowledge and actively develop it into rational knowledge; then start from rational knowledge and actively guide revolutionary practice to change both the subjective and the objective world.

read on the correct handling of contradictions among the people so that i could learn how to use dialectical materialism to help my friends and family solve interpersonal relationship drama 😩