Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun (Chinese: 枪杆子里面出政权) is a phrase which was coined by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong...popularized largely as a result of its prominence in Mao's Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1964). [The Little Red Book]
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