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# The post-1949 period, following the revolutionary victory: The victory of 1949 was a conformation of theory and practice.

" Optimism is the keynote to Mao ’ s intellectual orientation in the post-1949 period.

" Mao assertively revised theory to relate it to the new practice of socialist construction.

These revisions are apparent in the 1951 version of " On Contradiction ".

" In the 1930 ’ s, when Mao talked about contradiction, he meant the contradiction between subjective thought and objective reality.

In " Dialectal Materialism " of 1940, he saw idealism and materialism as two possible correlations between subjective thought and objective reality.

In the 1940s he introduced no new elements into his understanding of the subject-object contradiction.

Now, in the 1951 version of " On Contradiction ", he saw contradiction as a universal principle underlying all processes of development, yet with each contradiction possessed of its own particularity.