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In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class. "On Practice" (July 1937), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 296. Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the supersession of the old society by the new. "On Contradiction" (August 1937), Selected Works, Vol. I, P. 314. The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule… It was the class struggles of the peasants, the peasant uprisings and peasant wars that constituted the real motive force of historical development in Chinese feudal society. "The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party" (December 1939), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 308.* In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle ...»