Every Communist must grasp the truth; "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Mao-Tse-tung, "Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries.
Mao-Tse-tung, Ibid. p. 219.
