The Doctrine That Everything Has Both Main Aspect and an Equilibrium Aspect

The emphasis of this doctrine includes the view that the main contradiction and the main aspect of contradiction play a leading role and determine the nature of things. Lenin pointed out that “we should be good at finding the weakest link in the capitalist route or chain.”

Mao Zedong pointed out that materialist dialectics holds that development arises from the contradictions inside a thing, and there are a number of contradictions; one of them must be the principal contradiction playing the leading and decisive role, while the rest occupy a secondary and subordinate position.

The theory of equilibrium, also known as the theory of even and balanced development, is a metaphysical philosophical point of view. It denies that there are principal and non-principal contradictions in a process and also denies that a contradiction contains a principal and a non-principal aspects; it absolutizes the relative rest and temporary equilibrium and holds that equilibrium and gradual change to be the normal state of things. The main aspect of this doctrine advocates the recognition of non-principal aspect of a contradiction and thus inherently embodies the theory of two-points. Any theory of two-points divorced from the main aspect doctrine will inevitably become the mistaken equilibrium theory.