ABSTRACT
As early as forty years ago, Chinese leader Mao Zedong said in his work “Ren de zhenque sixiang shi cong nali laide?”(“Where do correct ideas come from?”): “Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the sky? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practices and from them alone. They come from three kinds of social practices, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiments. It is man’s social being that determines his thinking.” He also said: “Correct knowledge can be arrived at only after many repetitions of the process leading from matter to consciousness and then back to matter, that is, leading from practice to knowledge and then back to practice. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge, the dialectical materialist theory of knowledge.”1
