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''Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'' () is a phrase which was coined by Chinese communist leader
Quotations from Mao Tse Tung
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''Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'' () is a phrase which was coined by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong pronounced ; also Romanization of Chinese, romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the List of national founde ...
. The phrase was originally used by Mao during an emergency meeting of the Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Ci ...
(CCP) on 7 August 1927, at the beginning of the Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, continuing intermittently since 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949 with a Communist victory on main ...
.
Mao employed the phrase a second time on 6 November 1938, during his concluding speech at the sixth Plenary Session of the CCP's 6th Central Committee. The speech was concerned with both the Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific T ...
, which had commenced the previous year.
In 1960, a portion of the 1938 speech was excerpted and included in Mao's ''Selected Works'', with the title "Problems of War and Strategy". However, the central phrase was popularized largely as a result of its prominence in Mao's ''Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
''Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung'' () is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong (formerly romanized as Mao Tse-tung), the former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, published from 1964 to about 1976 and widel ...
'' (1964).
Sixth plenary session
The 1938 paragraph containing the phrase is reproduced below; the central phrase (in bold), cited as deriving from the 1938 speech via the ''Selected Works'', is that given in Mao's ''Quotations''.See also
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*No War but the Class War
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