"Long Live the Victory 
of People's War!" of September 3, 1965
by Lin Piao (Lin Biao)
Distributed by the Communist Party of China



Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be 
called the 'cities of the world,' then Asia, Africa and Latin 
America constitute 'the rural areas of the world.' Since World War 
II, the proletarian revolutionary movement has for various reasons 
been temporarily held back in the North American and West European 
capitalist countries, while the people's revolutionary movement in 
Asia, Africa and Latin America has been growing vigorously. In a 
sense, the contemporary world revolution also presents a picture of 
the encirclement of the cities by the rural areas. In the final 
analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the 
revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American 
peoples who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's 
population. The socialist countries should regard it as their 
internationalist duty to support the people's revolutionary 
struggles in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

[mim3@mim.org notes: The above quote and many others like it from the 
Communist Party of China is signficant for excluding the imperialist 
countries and their populations for strategic purposes. The cities
in Mao's China were referred to as "corrupted" and the last to fall in
China's revolution of 1949.

The quote above caused speculation on internal matters within the Communist
Party of China, with some saying that the CPC should spell out what
"temporary reasons" are with others saying the thesis was not yet "mature."
At the time, the fraternal party of the CPC, the Progressive
Labor Party in the United $tates did not agree with the above.]