With great political courage, Mao Zedong put forward the famous conclusion that "political power comes out of the barrel of a gun" on June 6th, 1987 at the August 7th meeting, the highest meeting of the Party held in Hankou, Hubei, combined with the national conditions of China at that time. That is, there is no democracy in China, and revolutionary armed struggle is the main form, which is determined by the characteristics of China's national conditions.

Starting from the background of "political power comes from the barrel of a gun", this paper analyzes the significance of this famous assertion in ancient and modern times, and tells that in this era, it is emphasized that the whole party "should attach great importance to military affairs and know that political power comes from the barrel of a gun."

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"Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun" is of far-reaching significance to China. This famous assertion was put forward by Mao Zedong at the August 7th meeting according to the national conditions of China at that time. He clearly realized that China, China people's China, has no savior to bring happiness to China people, and there is no panacea to cure China's disease.

Regardless of China's national conditions, copying western formulas will only make China more chaotic and worse, and the result is only a dead end. Determined the policy of armed opposition to the Kuomintang reactionaries and launched the agrarian revolutionary war.