Mao famously speculated on the nature of contradictions in a 1937 essay: “The law of contradiction in things, that is, the law of the unity of opposites, is the fundamental law of nature and of society.” One wonders, though, if even he could have grasped, much less managed, the contradictions of communist capitalism.
在1937 年的论文中，毛泽东对矛盾的性质做出了著名的总结：“事物矛盾的法则，即对立统一的法则，是自然和社会的根本法则。”尽管如此，我们还是会困惑，就连毛泽东是否也无法抓住、更不用说管理共产资本主义的矛盾。