If the military and the peasantry unite as one, then none on this earth could possibly subvert them. Excerpt from one of Mao Zedong's various works of poetry.

Let a hundred flowers bloom: let a hundred schools of thought contend. Slogan used at the start of the Hundred Flowers Campaign for open criticism of the communist government that began in late 1956 and later went out of control.

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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it. (May 1930)

In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class. (July 1937)

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Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976; Mao Tse-tung in Wade-Giles) was the chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death in 1976. Under his leadership, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) became the ruling party of Mainland China after victory over Chinese Nationalists, the Kuomintang, in the Chinese Civil War. On October 1, 1949, Mao declared the formation of the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square. From the 1950s until his death, Mao initiated various economic and political campaigns, such as the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people. His knowledge of these deaths is disputed.

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