"Castro, the very man who had declared a thousand times that he was not a Communist and that "the Revolution is greener than palm trees," had stripped off the disguise that had fooled so many people and now had proclaimed the true nature of the Revolution, the nature it had from the beginning: "This is a socialist revolution," He said. "And we will defend it with these rifles!" And he ended his long proclamation with an unmistakably Communist finale: "Long live the working class! Long live the farmers! Long live the humble! Long live the socialist revolution! Patria o muerte! We shall overcome!" — The demagogic phrases of a system which promises the worker, the poor, the humble his freedom, and then enchains him."
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