The Founders of the Communist Party of Cuba (P.C.C) exposed by Wikipedia

One of the advantages of open source constructions is that anonymity allows for the kind of writing that nobody would dare to write otherwise. Sociologist Howard S. Becker says that one of the problems sociology confront as a discipline is the recurrence of abstract and vague statements avoiding exposure of causation and taking responsibility. “Sociologists’ inability or unwillingness to make casual statements similarly leads to bad writing (…) better to say something innocuous but safe than something bold you might not be able to defend against criticism (…) They want to discover causes, because cause are scientifically interesting, but they don’t want the philosophical responsibility” (Becker 8-9).
I have read somewhere that Wikipedia have achieved supremacy of accuracy over Encyclopedia Britannica. That sentence, although seemingly far-fetched, would be easily accepted if we think of constraints that come from evils such as institutionalism and personal interest; censorship and self-censorship; fears of and real risks of retaliation and punishment. So it is not difficult to think that Wikipedia is an invitation to the kind of bold statements and courageous factual stating that would be impossible to publish unless the identity of the author and the source of information are hidden. Sure, secrecy and anonymity permits other kind of evils such as slander, distortion of facts and blatant lie. But with a platform that anybody can enter, review, check and correct, falseness and inaccuracy are kept at a minimum, even zero, level.
So when I read what Wikipedia has to say about the founders of the Cuban Communist Party I took it as matter of fact. I was taken aback by exposure of data that I never heard of in all my years living in Cuba and that I would have never dreamed of hearing from anybody or any source. I’m glad that Wikipedia gives the opportunity to people who are understandably afraid of retaliation to use the advantages of open source to upload information that otherwise would have pose risks to their lives and well being.
I felt kind of shocked by reading that Juan Marinello, the cultural crusader who put into writing a program against the Cuban avangardist abstract artists at the beginning of the Revolution, was a high profile figure in Batista’s administration. Could you imagine what that means for somebody who’s aesthetic formation was shaped by the reading of Juan Marinello’s “Conversacion con los Pintores Abstractos” among other socialist-realism, Marxist based texts? Well, Juan Marinello was not the only communist, high profile official of Castro’s administration who served under the orders of Batista, we also find Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, who held high-ranked positions almost since the beginning of the Revolution --until close to his death he was Vice-President of the Republic-- in the list of Batista’s powered executives. I also have read that lovely Tina Modotti, who is one of my 20th C. aesthetics heroes, was an Stalin operative and that Julio Antonio Mella may have been killed for deviation to Trotskyism. Wait until you read what Wikipedia has to say about Fabio Grobart, it could give you the goosebumps: It says that Fabio may have recruited Fidel Castro to Stalin's cause. Ayayayhh!
It could sound surprising to many that the Cuban communists supported Batista. But is that really surprising? After all, are not Marxist-Leninists supporters of the dictatorship of the proletariat? Is there not a close relation between Totalitarianism and dictatorship? So, why the communists could have not liked the idea of a strong man like Batista in power? Actually, Cuban communists supported not only Batista, they also supported Machado years before. I believe that they –the Cuban Communists withdrew their support of Batista after realizing that he was not going to follow-up Marxist-Leninist ideology. On the other hand, the Cuban communists may have decided to support Fidel Castro with the condition that he would commit to Stalinization of Cuba. And if its true that Fabio Grobart did recruit Fidel as an Stalin operative, he was indeed committed.
Who knows if Wikipedia or any other open source, identity hidden enabling platform is going to air more and more facts and documents for all to see. I’m sure that the censor's closet cannot be kept locked any longer, and if anyone has reasons to think that the information is inaccurate, please feel free to correct it. After all, that’s what open source is all about. But be accurate, because otherwise, someone else will correct your “facts”.
Bellow there is some of the information I took from Wikipedia about the founders of the Communist Party of Cuba (P.C.C.). If you are interested, you can read more by clicking on the links that follow.
“in 1942, Rodríguez (Carlos Rafael) joined the cabinet of President Fulgencio Batista.[3] A "dedicated Marxist", Rodríguez's participation in the Batista cabinet marked the high point of the regime's collaboration with the Communist Party.
“The founders of the Cuban Communist Party, who can be variously attributed and variously excluded, are listed as: Julio Antonio Mella, Juan Marinello, Alejandro Barreiro, Carlos Baliño, Jesús Menéndez, Carlos Rafael Rodríguez, Lázaro Peña, Blas Roca, Rubén Martínez Villena, Anibal Escalante, Emilio Roig and Fabio Grobart.
Fabio Grobart (aka Abraham Semjovitch; Alberto Blanco) was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1905 and died in Cuba. October 22, 1994; he was a member of the Comintern and often considered a covert Moscow appointed leader of the Communists in the Caribbean area. Mella used the pseudonyms Cuauhtémoc Zapata, Kim (El Machete), y Lord McPartland in his writing. Blas Roca was born Francisco Calderío.[18]
The Cuban Communist Party was later renamed the People's Socialist Party for electoral reasons. Its policy was dictated from Moscow, it at one time supported the dictatorships of Gerardo Machado, and would later support Fulgencio Batista in whose government Dr. Juan Marinello and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez were Ministers Without Portfolio. Although covert communist support was given to Castro and the Che Guevara in the Sierra Maestra, the overt People's Socialist Party was critical of Fidel Castro's rise to power until the summer of 1958”.
“Fabio Grobart was long considered “… maybe the highest ranking representative of the Third International in Cuba in that moment. However, Grobart’s importance in founding the Cuban communist party was recognized by Fidel Castro, the Rand thinktank, and Jewish history experts such as Moisés Asís, who states ‘By 1925, there were 8,000 Jews in Cuba (some 2,700 sephardic, 5,200 ashkenazic, and 100 Americans). Four ashkenazic Jews were in the small group that founded the first Communist Party of Cuba in 1925: Grimberg, Vasserman, Simjovich aka Grobart, and Gurbich. They opposed the religious and community life of the other Jews.’
“It has been claimed that Grobart recruited Fidel Castro as an agent in 1948. Although the party Grobart helped found was not the first Cuban communist party, it is considered as such by the present Cuban government. “
“The first well-known Cuban communist was Pablo Lafargue, born in Santiago de Cuba in 1847. Lafargue went to Europe, became a disciple of Karl Marx, married one of Marx’s daughters, became a very important member of the Socialist Internationals, and helped found the French Workers Party in 1882. Lafargue and his wife committed suicide. The original Cuban Communist Party seems to have arisen early in the 20th Century in the eastern town of Manzanillo.”
“Although it is public record that Gerard Machado often turned to the communist party for support”.
“The official position of the present Cuban government is still that Mella was killed at Gerardo Machado's orders, but it admits that Tina Modotti was a Stalinist operative who operated in a number of countries.”
About Diego Rivera’s ‘In the Arsenal’: “Given the closeness of Diego Rivera to the people involved some consider this fresco painting to be evidence of Vidale's and Rivera's involvement in Mella's assassination and this work of art is believed by many to relate to Rivera's expulsion from the Mexican Communist Party.”
About the death of Julio Antonio Mella: “At the time of his death he was a Cuban marxist revolutionary in Mexico trying to organize the overthrow of the Cuban government of General Gerardo Machado. This cause was an embarrassment to the Cuban Communist Party which was trying to gain power by establishing a modus vivendi with Machado.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Antonio_Mella
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Rafael_Rodr%C3%ADguez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio_Grobart