To: familyop
Mao Zedong, the Chinese communist leader who coined the phrase. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun (Chinese: 枪杆子里面出政权; pinyin: Qiānggǎn zi lǐmiàn chū zhèngquán) is a phrase which was coined by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong.
81 posted on
07/29/2022 12:40:38 PM PDT by
satan
(The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
To: satan
"Mao Zedong, the Chinese communist leader who coined the phrase. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun..."
Yes. And the path from that gun to the Chinese consumer is far shorter with less deliberation than in the West.
93 posted on
07/29/2022 12:54:49 PM PDT by
familyop
("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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