Casparism



Casparism is a social, political, economic, and military ideology centered around establishing a communist state, primarily through establishing a new social order based around common ownership of property and the means of production under a nationalist working class vanguard party. The ideology is born from the work of Wals Henric Caspar, a Curgov military officer and separatist who came into political power in the 1930s. Followers of the ideology are known as Casparists or Cockerels, after the rooster emblem of the paramilitary faction. As Caspar's theory largely moved through word of mouth and was only released in private diaries and essays after his death, there are multiple competing interpretations of the modern ideology.

The first and only Casparist state was established in Mero-Curgovina during the ultranationalist period before capitulating to Euricas Balthy's loyalist army in 1945. The initial goal of the state was the reunification of Curgovina under a to oppose the Govreca party's ultranationalist junta in Merandy. As such, Caspar and his administration considered themselves the legitimate government of Mero-Curgovina. Though referring to their state as the People's Republic of the Merands, Curgovs, and Artemsch, it is more commonly known under the contemporary name of the Casparist Free State.

Background
Caspar was born in January 1892 in Waibriga, Merandy, the son of a prominent industrialist family along the Waib river. He cited spending more time with labourers in his family's factories growing up than with other children as his first exposure to the struggle of the working class. Educated in a trade school in Ulnsc, Caspar would later leave his family join the officer academy at Surmira in 1910. At Surmira, Caspar developed a reputation for his ability to influence others, making contacts with noble officer students far above his own social standing. He was commissioned as a lieutenant (Ambauht) with the 39. Infantry Regiment Crosdragas in 1912.

The 39. Infantry formed part of the Mero-Curgov Expeditionary Army in Teutonenland after the outbreak of the Grand Campaigns in 1915, where Caspar saw service on the Vallisian front and by the summer of 1917 had been promoted to captain (Hapmad.) Following an offensive in August 1918, he was significantly wounded in an artillery barrage that would leave him with a permanent limp. While recuperating in a military hospital in Teutonenland, Caspar was offered a relief from front line service as an instructor for reservists from a contact at the Surmira officer school, which would be accompanied by a promotion to major (Comtar.) He accepted, returning to Mero-Curgovina in March 1919. Caspar's first political writings date back to the fall of 1918, the beginning of his recuperation in Teutonenland. His journals from this time show that he had begun to lose faith in the Recamahts High Command's ability to maintain the momentum of the Teutonic offenses. It is believed that during this time he was in contact with communist-sympathetic officers of the Teuton army.