“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.