[2]: 102 After incorporating ideas from Liu Shaoqi and Zhou Enlai,[3]: 168 it which was revised and printed in the Peoples Daily on June 19, 1957.
To make our country prosperous and strong, it will take decades of frugal accumulation, including the implementation of hard work and thrift in economic construction.
The term is most often applied in Maoist theory, which holds that differences between the two primary classes, the working class/proletariat and the bourgeoisie are so great that there is no way to bring about a reconciliation of their views.
Because the groups involved have diametrically opposed concerns, their objectives are so dissimilar and contradictory that no mutually acceptable resolution can be found.
Mao Zedong expressed his views on the policy in his famous February 1957 speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People."
The Chinese term derives from the Han Feizi: "There was once a man in the state of Chu, who was selling shields and lances.
[3]: 7 On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People was a major milestone in the localization of Marxism within China and an important aspect of Mao Zedong Thought.
[3]: 170 An immediate consequence of the text's dissemination was that people were inspired to speak out in the gradually opening social spaces of critique.