After The Founding Of Mao Zedong's Understanding And Dealing With Social Contradictions Of The Theory And Practice

The pressure and challenge are necessary for a nation’s revolution, development and progress, while the success of accepting those pressure and challenge will lead to the revolution, development and progress in civilization. Throughout the human development in history, we should not only pay attention to the destructions of social constructions but also to its positive aspects in socialist constructions as an internal motivation of the development of socialism. Following Chinese Communist Party becoming the ruling party, Chairman Mao began a painstaking exploration of how to deal with social contradictions. The exploration becomes a prominent component of the socialist revolution and construction in New China. When he was successfully to explore how to deal with social contradictions, the socialist construction can smoothly move forward. To the contrary, there will be mistakes in socialist construction.As the social contradiction involves in multi-disciplinary problems, this article, which with the guide of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, will give an enough analysis and proof from four aspects which focused on Chairman Mao’s understanding and handling of social contradictions using multi-disciplinary researching method such as politics, party history, history, sociology and etc.The first part begins with the defined theory of social contradictions. The social contradictions are the total of the contradictions and combinations which the people make through struggling to provide the necessary means for individuals and groups for the contradictions of interests of status in their social daily life. Social contradictions are divided into three levels, which consist of the basic social contradictions, the principal social contradictions and the specific social contradictions.The second part analyzes the innovations of the exploring the deals with the social contradictions. At the beginning, this article elaborates the route on the theory of socialist contradictions including socialist ideals of Marks, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Then, from the consolidation of the new regime and the construction of new socialist, the article makes an analysis of Chairman Mao’s motivation of dealing with the social contradictions.The third part is the key part of this article. It mainly focused on Chairman Mao’s basic point on understanding and handling of social contradictions. This article argues that Chairman Mao is our pioneer and explorer on the standing and handling the social contradictions. He initially established a more scientific theoretical system of social contradictions, and made some effective ways to deal with social contradictions. However, in his later years, he made an extremely severe mistake on the standing and handling the social contradictions which mainly reflected in both the wrong understanding of the major social contradictions and the imperfect ideas and methods of handling the social contradictions.The fourth part summarizes the revelation of Chairman Mao’s theory and practice of dealing with social contradictions in modern society. We should curb the corruption, reduce the contradictions between the officials and civilians, make a combination of virtue and rule of the law, and normalize the rule of law. We should adhere to the economic development as the basis of our country’s development and emphasize the safeguarding and improve people’s livelihood.