original/chinese:
枪杆子里面出政权 ("Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun")

bulgarian: Властта идва от цевта на пистолет

czech: Moc vychází z hlavně zbraně

danish: Kraften kommer fra geværløbet

dutch: De kracht komt van de geweerloop

estonian: Võimsus tuleb relva toru

finnish: Virta tulee aseen putkesta

french: Le pouvoir vient du canon de l'arme

german: Die Macht kommt aus dem Lauf der Waffe

greek: Η δύναμη προέρχεται από την κάννη του όπλου

hungarian: Az erő a fegyver csövéből származik.

indonesian: Kekuatan berasal dari laras senjata.

italian: L'energia proviene dalla canna della pistola.

japanese: エネルギーは銃身から供給される。

latvian: Enerģiju piegādā muca.

lithuanian: Energiją tiekia statinė.

polish: Energia jest dostarczana przez beczkę.

portuguese: A energia é fornecida pelo barril.

romanian: Energia este furnizată de butoi.

russian: Энергия поступает от ствола.

slovak: Energia pochádza z hlavne.

slovenian: Energija prihaja iz cevi.

spanish: La energía proviene de las tuberías.

swedish: Energin kommer från rören.

turkish: Enerji borulardan geliyor.

english: The energy comes from the pipes. :stalin-pipe: :sartre-pipe:

  • emizeko [they/them]
    ·
    3 years ago

    Communists do not fight for personal military power (they must in no circumstances do that, and let no one ever again follow the example of Zhang Guotao, but they must fight for military power for the Party, for military power for the people. As a national war of resistance is going on, we must also fight for military power for the nation. Where there is naivete on the question of military power, nothing whatsoever can be achieved. It is very difficult for the labouring people, who have been deceived and intimidated by the reactionary ruling classes for thousands of years, to awaken to the importance of having guns in their own hands. Now that Japanese imperialist oppression and the nation-wide resistance to it have pushed our labouring people into the arena of war, Communists should prove themselves the most politically conscious leaders in this war. Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. Yet, having guns, we can create Party organizations, as witness the powerful Party organizations which the Eighth Route Army has created in northern China. We can also create cadres, create schools, create culture, create mass movements. Everything in Yenan has been created by having guns. All things grow out of the barrel of a gun. According to the Marxist theory of the state, the army is the chief component of state power. Whoever wants to seize and retain state power must have a strong army. Some people ridicule us as advocates of the "omnipotence of war". Yes, we are advocates of the omnipotence of revolutionary war; that is good, not bad, it is Marxist. The guns of the Russian Communist Party created socialism. We shall create a democratic republic. Experience in the class struggle in the era of imperialism teaches us that it is only by the power of the gun that the working class and the labouring masses can defeat the armed bourgeoisie and landlords; in this sense we may say that only with guns can the whole world be transformed. 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.

    —Mao Zedong, Selected Works Vol. II, pp. 224-225