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Quote from Mao Tse-tung,

"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.'  Our principle is that the [Communist] Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party."



By:

Mao Tse-tung (more quotes by Mao Tse-tung or books by/about Mao Tse-tung)


Premier of China (1893 - 1976)

Source:

"Problems of War and Strategy," November 6, 1938, in 'Selected Works of Mao Zedong' (1965)

Categories:

Communism, Guns, Power

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