On Practice and Contradiction

Author: Tse-Tung, Mao

China

Published on 5 September 2017 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Revolutions' series.

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Zizek's firecracker commentary reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao's thought in the revolutionary canon.