Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1451
AUTHOR:
Mao Zedong (18931976)
QUOTATION:
Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
ATTRIBUTION:
MAO ZEDONG, concluding speech at the sixth plenary session of the Central Committee, Communist party, China, November 6, 1938.Mao, Selected Works, vol. 2, p. 272 (1954).