Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.
Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.
At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.
Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.
In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.
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I was gonna make a joke regarding "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" stealing from this passage:
But it turns out Le Guin actually was inspired by it! Although she only remembered it later by way of another text.
The Brothers Karamazov is an incredible book so far. I've very rarely seen such skill in subtley portraying all the depth of human feeling via the medium of a bunch of drunk or in love (and often both) Russians.
I highly recommend the book although it is challenging at times with all its names and references and diversions to paint a picture of all the various facets of Russian life in the 19th century.
There is something so profoundly life-affirming about a great novel, perhaps even moreso if it is a century old.