What is the CPUSA's position on Stalin and Mao's contributions to Dialectical Materialism? I know that the International Publishers published Stalin's Historical Materialism and Mao's On Contradiction. Of course its hard to separate faulty practice from correct theory. On Contradiction in my opinion is an important contribution to Marxist theory and according to Deng Xiaoping, and the CPUSA's sister party in China, Mao misapplied his own theory in the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward. That certainly is not unprecedented among natural scientists. The CPC and CPUSA are certainly correct in condemning Mao's great mistakes, but the CPC does not throw Mao's philosophical contributions out the window and I don;t think the CPUSA should either.
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