Race, Revolution, and the Chinese Communist Party Commentary by Clare M. Lopez October 8, 2020 “Every Communist must grasp the truth, ‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’”—Mao Zedong, “Problems of War and Strategy” (Nov. 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224. During the 1960s and 1970s, when African-American revolutionaries launched street violence in cities across the United States, their ...