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Segilla | 20:49 Sun 18th Jun 2006 | Arts & Literature
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Around 1950, in a GCSE or mock exam, a question asked,


Define / discuss [or whatever]


When the monkey is king, everyone shall bow [or kneel] before him.


Any ideas about where this might have come from? It seems to me a version of 'Political power grows from the barrel of a gun'.




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There is a very similar quotation "When there is no Tiger on the mountain the monkey is King". This is sometimes quoted as Mao Tse Tung but could be earlier.


I'd understand this as saying that if power is not held by a strong and possibly violent leader then control rests with forces of chaos.

13:49 Mon 19th Jun 2006

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