Speech by Mao Zedong at the 11th (enlarged) meeting of the Supreme State Council on February 27th 1957. It was revised and supplemented and published in People's Daily on June 1957. 1994 Selected Important Documents Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China, Volume 10.
The speech was divided into twelve sub-themes:
First, two contradictions of different nature.
Second, the problem of eliminating counterrevolutionaries.
Third, the issue of agricultural cooperation.
Fourth, the problem of businessmen.
Fifth, the question of intellectuals.
Problems of intransitive verbs about ethnic minorities.
Seven, overall consideration, appropriate arrangements.
Eight, let a hundred flowers blossom, a hundred schools of thought contend, long-term coexistence, mutual supervision.
Nine, a few people make trouble.
10. Can a bad thing turn into a good thing?
XI。 About the economy.
Twelve. China's road to industrialization.
The speech pointed out:
The basic contradiction of socialist society is still the contradiction between production relations and productivity, the contradiction between superstructure and economic base. They are not contradictory, but can be solved continuously through the socialist system itself. The speech clearly pointed out that there are two different social contradictions in socialist society, namely, the contradiction between ourselves and the enemy and the contradiction among the people.
And pointed out that the contradiction between the enemy and ourselves is antagonistic. Contradictions among the people, on the whole, are based on the fundamental consistency of people's interests. In the future, it is mainly to correctly divide and deal with two kinds of contradictions with different natures. The speech put forward a series of methods, principles and policies for correctly handling contradictions among the people, advocating dictatorship to deal with contradictions between the enemy and ourselves and democratic methods to solve contradictions among the people, that is, unity-criticism-unity.