In my Chinese history class, one of the things that was emphasized was that people in medival China could believe multiple contradictory things about the nature of the universe. Also the nature of knowledge in Bhuddist tradition is more uncertain and less willing to delineate the inherent nature of things.

I was wondering how Mao reconciled (or surpressed) this kind of thinking with the teleology of dialectical materialism that says that the inherent nature of people and capital is knowable and we should make decisions based on that knowledge