Communist Orientation

p. 12-16:
"From 1800 to independence India – the British colony comprising present India, Pakistan and Bangladesh – experienced at least 7 major periods of famine. During the period from 1866 to 1878 alone, there were three great famine catastrophes with close to 10 million victims. Among the main reasons behind these famines was British colonization of the country."

p. 6-11:
This second part will discus the development in the principal contradiction since the second world war.

p. 2-6:
"There are many contradictions in the process of development of a complex thing, and one of them is necessarily the principal contradiction whose existence and development determine or influence the existence and development of the other contradictions", Mao Tse-tung says in his "On Contradiction", and later on he puts is still more precisely that ".. at every stage in the development of a process there is only one principal contradiction which plays the leading role. ... Therefore, in studying any complex process in which there are two or more contradiction we must devote every effort to finding its principal contradiction." "
The first of 2 articles on dialectical materialism.

About the publication: From: Communist Orientation, No. 1, April 10, 1975, p. 1-2. Translated from Danish "Kommunistisk Orientering", December, 1974, nr. 1, p.1-2. Actually Gotfred Appel was not credited for the text either in the danish or the English edition - Only a few of his texts was credited to him. Back to...