Editing People's War (section)

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[[File:ShiningPathFiveYears.jpg|thumb|238px|[[Shining Path]] propaganda poster encouraging the People's War.]]{{Quote|The people's state protects the people. Only when the people have such a state can they educate and remould themselves by democratic methods on a country-wide scale, with everyone taking part, and shake off the influence of domestic and foreign reactionaries...rid themselves of the bad habits and ideas acquired in the old society, not allow themselves to be led astray by the reactionaries, and continue to advance- to advance towards a socialist and communist society.|[[Mao Zedong]]}}
The '''People's War''', also called the '''Prolonged People's War''', is a political-military strategy developed by [[Mao Zedong]] that is based on obtaining the support of the population and attracting the enemy so that the population can defeat it through a mobile war or a guerrilla war. It is a tactic widely used by [[Mao Zedong|Maoist]] organizations to fight against the government.