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It is very difficult for the labouring people, who have been deceived and intimidated by the reactionary ruling classes for thousands of years, to awaken to the importance of having guns in their own hands... Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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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)

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