# Mao Zedong **Domain:** Political theory / Chinese history **Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition **Mao Zedong** (1893–1976) was a Chinese revolutionary leader and the founding chairman of the People's Republic of China. His 1938 formulation that politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with bloodshed supplies the article's inversion of the substitution thesis. ## Significance The phrase frames non-kinetic struggle as politically consequential without claiming that all politics is literally warfare. ## Sources - [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]] - [Primary or institutional source](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_12.htm) ## Routes [[wiki/Substitution Thesis|Substitution Thesis]] · [[wiki/Combat Without Fighting|Combat Without Fighting]] · [[articles/gamification/Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed|Lex Sportiva and Winning Without Bloodshed]]