Daily Inspiration Quote by Fidel Castro

“Dictatorship” is the dare in Castro’s sentence: a word designed to scandalize liberals and reassure revolutionaries at the same time. He strips the term of its usual moral charge and rebrands it as a class instrument. Not dictatorship as personal whim, but as historical necessity - the exploited finally wielding coercive power against the people who had long wielded it quietly through property, police, and patronage. The line’s intent is clarifying and disciplinary: if you’re uncomfortable with force, you’re not fully committed to ending the old order.

The phrasing is pure Marxist-Leninist inheritance, echoing the “dictatorship of the proletariat” while swapping in the more emotionally legible “exploited.” That substitution is shrewd propaganda. “Proletariat” sounds like a theory seminar; “exploited” sounds like a wound. It widens the imagined coalition beyond factory workers to peasants, the urban poor, and anyone who can be narratively placed on the wrong end of power.

Context matters because Cuba’s revolution had to justify extraordinary measures - trials, expropriations, one-party control - as defensive acts rather than authoritarian drift. By defining the revolution as a class dictatorship, Castro reframes repression as justice and opposition as restoration. The subtext is a warning and a permission slip: there will be winners and losers, and the losers won’t be allowed to vote their privileges back into existence.

It also smuggles in permanence. Revolutions are supposed to be transitional; “dictatorship of the exploited” implies a moral mandate that can outlast emergencies, because exploitation is always said to be lurking, always ready to return.