The Mao quote and gun control

[axxxel]

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"

this is a famous and well known quote from "chairman Mao", but I could swear I've seen a longer version of it implemented in a text arguing for gun control. The short version posted above is from "the little red book of quotations from chairman mao". I think that the authors of "the little red book" found the quote in something like a political essay to enforce gun control in China or a paragraph of the PRC constitution or something like that.

Does anyone here know of the context that I'm trying to remember?

 

[ripp]

google it, MAO, mao's essays, etc,

and see what pops up.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)(1964)

"Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Chapter 5

"Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party." - Chapter 9

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

"Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

True, but ...

"Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."

... only as long as they have them. And you saw what happened.

 

[zdc1775]

it is from his concluding speech at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Party. You can read the entire speech here

www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/.../mswv2_12.htm

 

[9mmepiphany]

I think that the authors of "the little red book" found the quote in something like a political essay to enforce gun control in Chin

Your belief isn't correct, there aren't any authors, Mao actually wrote this. This isn't a quote about gun control, it is a quote about the nature of political power

枪杆子里面出政权

While it is nice to have cleared up, it is more political than gun related