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A new, animated polemic has spread through the countryside, on the philosophical front, between the concepts 'one divides into two' and 'two become one'. The debate is a struggle between those for, and those against, the materialist dialectic, a struggle between conceptions of the world: the proletarian and the bourgeois conception. Those who maintain that 'one divides into two' is the fundamental law of things have grasped the point of materialist dialectics; those who maintain that the fundamental law of things is that 'two become one' are against dialectical materialism. The two sides have drawn a demarcation line between them, and are fundamentally opposed. This polemic is reflected, at the ideological level, of the sharp and complex class conflict which is playing out in China and in the world.
--- _Red Flag_, Peking, 21 September 1964
The spectacle, like modern society, is at once united and divided. Like it, it builds unification upon demolition. But the contradiction, once it emerges in the form of the spectacle, is in turn contradicted by an inversion of meaning; in which it is division that is united, at the same time as apparent unity that is divided.