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Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
Guard against revisionism, particularly the emergence of revisionism at the party Centre.
Directives Regarding the Cultural Revolution (1966)
The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.
Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
The masses, the army, and the cadres are the three pillars on which we rely.
Directives Regarding the Cultural Revolution (1966)
Criticism and self-criticism is a kind of method. It is a method of resolving contradictions among the people and it is the only method.
Without a People's army, the people have nothing.
Children are the masters of the new society.
Be resolute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory.
Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.
We must have faith in the masses and we must have faith in the Party. These are two cardinal principles. If we doubt these principles, we shall accomplish nothing.
A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
What we need is an enthusiastic but calm state of mind, and intense but orderly work.
Subjectivism, sectarianism and stereotyped Party writing are no longer the dominant styles, but merely gusts of contrary wind, ill winds from the air-raid tunnels.
If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality.
On Practice (1937)
Where there is oppression, there is revolt.
No need to be afraid of tidal waves; human society has been evolved out of 'tidal waves'.
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966)
Trust and rely on the masses; trust and rely on the PLA; trust and rely on the majority of the cadres.
Directives Regarding the Cultural Revolution (1966)
The Cultural Revolution can only be the emancipation of the masses by the masses.
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966)
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.