Mao Zedong's On Contradiction is considered his most important philosphical essay. Along with On Practice it forms the philosophical underpinnings of the political idealogy that would later become Maoism. It was written in August 1937 while Mao was at his guerilla base in Yenan. Mao sugggests that all movement and life is a result of contradiction. Mao insists that there is a different between antagonism and contradiction. For example he writes in 1911 both the bourgeois and proliteriat were allies against the monarchy despite their contradictions because it was nonantagonistic. Mao also suggests that they're may be contradictions between workers and peasents that are anatgonistic under capitalism but will become peacedul under marxism. Mao accepts that contradictions will always exists ev