ABSTRACT
Mao Tse-tung's thought is the guide for all oppressed peoples and oppressed nations in their struggles for liberation. Armed with Mao Tse-tung's thought, the Chinese People's Liberation Army has fulfilled its great role as the pillar of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the unprecedented Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and gained new merits; at the same time it has been educated, tempered, and tested anew in the storms of this great revolution. Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes, and therefore impossible for the people to win political power. Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale.
