A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
— Mao Zedong Modern

Founder of People's Republic of China

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Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan

Date / Period

1927

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_13.…

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