Principal Contradiction Is Working Class vs Bourgeoisie

Mao Tse-tung

THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN
THE WORKING CLASS AND THE BOURGEOISIE
IS THE PRINCIPAL CONTRADICTION
IN CHINA

From the
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung,
Foreign Languages Press
Peking 1977

First Edition 1977

Vol. V, p. 77.

Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (November 1999)

page 77

THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN
THE WORKING CLASS AND THE BOURGEOISIE
IS THE PRINCIPAL CONTRADICTION
IN CHINA^[*]

June 6, 1952

With the overthrow of the landlord class and the bureaucrat-capitalist class, the contradiction between the working class and the national bourgeoisie has become the principal contradiction in China; therefore the national bourgeoisie should no longer be defined as an intermediate class.

* Written comment on a document drafted by the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Comrade Mao Tsetung criticized the head of this department for his error in regarding the national bourgeoisie as an intermediate class.

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THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THE WORKING CLASS AND THE BOURGEOISIE IS THE PRINCIPAL CONTRADICTION IN CHINA

THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN
THE WORKING CLASS AND THE BOURGEOISIE
IS THE PRINCIPAL CONTRADICTION
IN CHINA