The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

The line frames revolution in explicitly Marxist-Leninist terms: not as a neutral transfer of power or a pluralistic reform, but as “class rule” exercised by those previously oppressed. By calling it a “dictatorship of the exploited,” the quote echoes the concept of the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” arguing that coercive state power is inevitable in a revolutionary transition and should be wielded against former ruling classes (“the exploiters”). In Castro’s rhetoric, this formulation serves to justify extraordinary measures—centralization, repression of counterrevolution, and sweeping economic restructuring—as historically necessary defenses of the revolution rather than departures from it.