Delarueism

Delarueism, also known as communism, is a political philosophy oriented around the establishment of a society that enables an authentic and existential freedom of the individual. It was formulated in the early 20th century by the eponymous Hyacinthean author Merzherian Delarue as the culmination of several socio-political developments in Calesian existentialist philosophy.

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'Communism' was originally coined for Delarue's science-fiction novel Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil, in which a movement of young, idealistic secessionistic terrorists known as 'communists' overthrow the governments of the world through the use of a biochemical weapon taking the form of a red mist. Delarue was still in the middle of working on the Embodiment when the Hyacinthean Revolution broke out in 1922; fearing for his life, he decided to first publish the manifesto of the communists in the novel, the only part of the book he had finished writing. The excerpt was printed in revolutionary newspapers, taken at face value, and proved shockingly popular for its rousing language and enchanting futurist vision of the world, with factions of the Hyacinthean Revolutionary Alliance soon declaring themselves to be 'communists'.