The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in Chinese history... It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third.

Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.