Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:26 PM 9/3/03 EDT, Afterswift@aol.com wrote: > > >The gun Mao was talking about symbolized the armament of an army in the >field, tanks, artillery, planes, staff officers, divisions, etc. He wasn't >referring to handguns in the hands of civilians. Even on the Long March, he led a real >army supplied by the USSR. It was that army that kept the Japanese off >balance during WW II, and defeated the nationalists Chinese after WW II. Closet guns >had nothing to do with it. ====================== The entire quotation is, "[E]very Communist must grasp the truth, '[P]olitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun.'" QUOTATIONS OF CHAIRMAN MAO, p. 61. Mao was discussing the need for an armed revolutionary proletariat, not the need for a military force which he addressed separately. See the essay from which the quotation appears, "Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938). It can be found reprinted in II SELECTED WORKS OF CHAIRMAN MAO 224. The following year, he was to write, "without armed struggle, the Communist Party would assuredly not be what it is today." Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html