Quotes About Revolutionary War From Mao Tse Tung

By Sicebise Msengana

I'm not a peace keeper. I'm a peace maker. The African revolution is the only possible way to prevent Africans and restore peace and stability in the African region.
Those who start wars for others must perish. If Europe and America makes problems for Africans, let's send the war back to the U. S. and European countries.

Let's talk about Africa bombing American cities and planting assassins in Europe, to take corrupt European leaders.


1. War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.—“Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" (December 1936), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 180.

2. History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust... The way to oppose a war of this kind is to do everything possible to prevent it before it breaks out and, once it breaks out, to oppose war with war, to oppose unjust war with just war, whenever possible. – Ibid., p. 150.

3. Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.—“On Contradiction" (August1937), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 344.*

4. The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. Ibid. p. 219.

5. We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.—Ibid.

6. As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and prevent any possible war, but under no circumstances should we harbour any unrealistic notions about them.—On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., p. 75.