On the Question of Synthesis

#PUBLICATION NOTE

This edition of On the Question of Synthesis has been prepared and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the edition quoted in the Biography of Ai Siqi, Second Chinese Edition, Yunnan Educational Publishing House, Kunming, 2002.

#INTRODUCTION NOTE

This is an excerpt from a talk between Comrades Mao Zedong and Ai Siqi in the summer of 1964. It was first quoted in the Biography of Ai Siqi.

#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!

#ON THE QUESTION OF SYNTHESIS

#TALK WITH AI SIQI

#Mao Zedong

#Summer 1964

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Synthesis is nothing but the completion of the process of development of one aspect of a contradiction, the elimination of the other aspect, and the resolution of the contradiction.