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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
Chinese Communist Party slogan
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" (Chinese: 枪杆子里面出政权; pinyin: Qiānggǎnzi lǐmiàn chū zhèngquán) is a phrase and slogan which was coined by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong. The phrase was originally used by Mao during an emergency meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on 7 August 1927. Mao used the phrase following the decimation of CCP ranks by the Nationalist government's White Terror and the beginning of the Chinese Civil War, advocating that the party needed to establish "revolutionary base areas" in the mountains and develop its own military.
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