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So we have been able to march forward and we have not gone hungry. This has been the most hardworking harvest and the increased employment that has taken place in our country after the triumph of the Revolution, showed this harvest in which tens of thousands of volunteer workers had to go to the country? (Cries of "never"). Before work was lacking for all the cane cutters, and this year there was work to spare, this year men and women had to come from the city to cut cane. When could this have been seen before? (Cries of "never"). How could the tens of thousands of men and women from the city have been mobilized to cut cane voluntarily for the foreign monopolies and for the absentee landholders of cane? Never!
Now the men and women in the cities were mobilized because they were working for the benefit of the Nation, for the benefit of the cane workers' cooperatives, or for the benefit of the small cane farmers, for the benefit of the sugar workers. That is what the Socialist Revolution means. (applause) It means that the people are ready to work with all their energy when they are not working for the exploiters, that the people are ready to work with all their effort when they are not exploited (applause) when they are working for their own benefit, and when they are working for their own good. So the people, and the deeds of the Revolution have demonstrated it, they are ready to work with all their might.
And now there is more work than ever in the fields and when we have cleared the last stand of marabu we will not have men enough to plant all the land that we have available, and never again will there be a slack season in our Fatherland!
Fidel Castro, 1961 speech
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