"Gentlemen are harmonious but different, villains are not harmonious" comes from The Analects of Confucius. Interpretation: a gentleman can maintain a harmonious atmosphere with his surroundings, but he must have his own opinion on everything, instead of blindly agreeing with others; Little people have no opinions of their own. Although they are always consistent with others, they don't really care about real harmony.
The identity of contradiction refers to a trend and connection of interdependence, mutual attraction and mutual penetration between opposites of contradiction. The struggle of contradiction refers to the mutual repulsion of contradictory opposites, which embodies the tendency and trend of separation of opposites. Identity and struggle are two contradictory attributes of things, but they are interrelated and inseparable.
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Dialectical relationship between contradictory identity and struggle;
On the one hand, there is no identity without struggle, and there is no identity without struggle. Identity is based on differences and opposites, and it is a concrete identity that contains differences and opposites, so identity is bound to be restricted by struggle. Only when there are differences and opposites can there be unity. If there is a pure single thing without differences and opposites, there is no question of who is the same as who.
In other words, without the mutual opposition and struggle between the two sides of the contradiction, there would be no interdependence and mutual penetration between them. Struggle is the mutual exclusion of contradictions. Party A's exclusion of Party B will inevitably lead to Party B's exclusion of Party A ... It is the mutual exclusion of opposites that makes them interdependent. Once mutual exclusion stops, the identity of interdependence ceases to exist.
On the other hand, the contradictory struggle is inseparable from identity, and the struggle is always linked with and restricted by identity. What we mean by difference and opposition is the difference and opposition within things, while struggle is the struggle within unity, so difference, opposition and struggle must be related to and restricted by identity.
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