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THE ROLE OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY IN THE NATIONAL WAR is written as a guide for Communists to strengthen the Party's discipline as well as attitude to those in the Anti-Japanese War, it should be seen as a guide for Communists to apply to their own parties' policy on Cadre education, discipline and uniting with progressive elements in the nation.

ON CONTRADICTION usually read together with ON PRACTICE is an outline of Dialectical Materialism, the correct mode of thinking practiced by scientists and Marxists, and present in all class systems, weather and ecological systems etc.. This work is fundamental in grasping dialectics so as to avoid thinking in as Mao said in a "one sided manner."

On Practice remains one of Mao's monumental works. The basis that all human knowledge comes from practice, that in order to know you must do. That the criterion of practice is the basis for a correct theory. "Knowledge begins with practice, and theoretical knowledge which is acquired through practice must then return to practice."

In "Be Concerned with the Well-being of the Masses" and "The important thing is to be good at learning" he touches on concerning oneself with the people's welldoing in the former, in the latter he discusses that one cannot simply learn by textbooks but by actually taking what you learned and putting it into practice he discusses this with going to war and making generals and soldiering.

In "Be Concerned with the Well-being of the Masses" and "The important thing is to be good at learning" he touches on concerning oneself with the people's welldoing in the former, in the latter he discusses that one cannot simply learn by textbooks but by actually taking what you learned and putting it into practice he discusses this with going to war and making generals and soldiering.

“No Investigation, No Right to Speak”

In this short piece Mao gives advice on a method of learning. People who have not fully investigated a problem must shut up as they are spewing nonsense. This is an advice many need to take, myself included. However, Mao does not leave the reader without a guide to better themselves and their method of learning.

Report On an Invenstigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan (March 1927)

This is arguably the focal point of the History of the Communist Party of China. It documents the studying Mao did in the Hunan province of China, where he studied the Peasant Associations for 32 days, Hunan being the center of it all. This showcases the debate inside the CPC on the role of the peasantry in the Revolution.

"Unite with real friends in order to attack real enemies."

In this work Mao writes of the various social classed in the mid-1920s China. The comprador bourgeoisie and the landlords, the national bourgeoisie, the petty bourgeoisie, the semi-proletariat, the proletariat and the lumpen proletariat and their various roles in supporting the Revolution.