On Practice

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What evidence does the author provide?

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The provided passages do not offer specific evidence that the author presents. Instead, they describe the content of the book "On Practice and Contradiction" by Mao Tse-Tung. The passages mention that these are early philosophical writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution and that Mao draws on a "dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics" [1].

However, the passages do not detail what specific evidence is used within these writings to support the author's arguments. They focus on the nature of the writings and their historical significance, rather than the evidential basis of the arguments presented within them.

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Title: On Practice and Contradiction by Mao Tse-Tung Description: A collection of the writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution—presented by “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review Books) These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and Mao’s clarion call to insurrection has lost none of its ability to stir the blood and stimulate the mind. Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary culture and politics, Slavoj Žižek’s introduction reaches unsettling conclusions about the place of Mao’s thought in the…
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