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.
革命不是请客吃饭,不是做文章,不是绘画绣花,不能那样雅致,那样从容不迫,文质彬彬,那样温良恭俭让。革命是暴动,是一个阶级推翻一个阶级的暴烈的行动。
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Mao Zedong
Founder of the PRC and first CCP Chairman (1893-1976). A Hunan peasant who co-founded the Party in 1921, he proclaimed the People's Republic in 1949 — and presided over the Great Leap and Cultural Revolution.
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