Mao introduced the concept of "Serving the people" and "from the masses to the masses" which became the CPC's guide in leadership. Furthermore, Mao Zedong believed that the workers or laborers and the peasants are the only citizens who are capable of reforming the state of China. Therefore, they are the only class who take part in the mass revolution for he viewed the middle class "incapable on its own" of acting against imperialism and become truly independent. Mao Zedong wrote, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" and emphasized that a revolution will push through if there is an army of people. Furthermore, Mao's theory of people's war guided the Chinese revolution (Richards, 1986). The people's war has 3 essential principles. First was that his revolution would be carried out from bases located in remote rural areas, that it would involve a central role for the Red army, a role that would be more of a political than a military one; and that his revolution would take the form of a protracted war-a war of long and undetermined length, but one which would proceed through orderly stages (p. 1).
Furthermore, according to Cogley, W. (1977), Mao believed that power is not in terms of physical aspect such as weapons and equipment. For him, these things are important next to the "morale and will power of man." The three arguments were reflected on his perception of power. First, weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not the things that are decisive. Second, the contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. And third, military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people (p.1) Mao had its way of increasing power wherein one starts with "inferior situations", followed by analyzing the "superiority" within the identified parts of the situation.
