“Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the…” Mao Zedong

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
“Problems of War and Strategy”, 1938.
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Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 5, originally published in Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.
“在延安各界庆祝斯大林六十寿辰大会上的讲话” (“Speech marking the 60th birthday of Stalin”) (20 December 1939), later revised as “It is right to rebel against reactionaries.”
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