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Quotations From
Chairman Mao Tse-tung


[This item is reprinted from Peking Review, Vol. 11, #44, Nov. 1, 1968, p. 2 (inside front cover).]


      In the countryside, schools and colleges should be managed by the poor and lower-middle peasants — the most reliable ally of the working class.

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      The people of all countries, the masses comprising more than 90 per cent of the entire population, sooner or later want revolution and sooner or later support Marxism-Leninism. They will not support revisionism. Though some people may support revisionism for a while, they will eventually cast it aside. They are bound to awaken gradually; they are bound to oppose the imperialists and reactionaries in all countries; they are bound to oppose revisionism.

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      The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds good universally, for China and for all other countries.

Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938)      



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