Denis Stahler

Denis Stahler is a Sordish political theorist and politician who serves as the current leader of the Communist Party of Sordland (CPS.) Originally starting politics in the first Communist Party with the same name that existed between 1924 and 1928, he later joined People’s Freedom and Justice Party (PFJP,) and in 1950, co-founded the second Communist Party of Sordland in 1950.

Stahler became an exponent of communist ideas during his studies in the University of Haelm in Valgsland. After earning his doctorate in political economy, he moved to Holsord in 1927, where he hoped to open a lawyer’s office. He joined the Communist Party (1924-1928) and faced prosecution under General Luderin after the ban on the Communist Party in 1928. Fearing the complete annihilation of Sordish socialists by the junta, he moved to Valgsland and assisted the Red Youth by establishing connections between the Sordish and Valgslandian socialists with the help of the governing People’s Party of Valgsland.

After the civil war, he worked as a lawyer in Holsord, often defending other left-wing socialists. He was involved with smuggling Malenyevist propaganda from United Contana to Sordland as well as writing and publishing his own socialist magazine, ‘Tussle.’ He wrote extensively against militarism and authoritarianism. Because of his political theories on communism and physical resemblance to Emmerich Hegel, he was given the nickname ‘Sordish Hegel’ by his admirers.

Despite being regarded as a Malenyevist in Sordland, he wrote articles criticizing some of Leon Malenyev’s policies, arguing that Malenyevism was distorting the real ideals of Marcian socio-economics. He also heavily protested against the United Contanan Navy’s presence in Eastern Merkopa. He joined the PFJP as a social democrat in 1936 with hopes to enter the Grand National Assembly of Sordland, but he was denied top positions in the candidate lists due to his communist views, and couldn’t get elected.

In 1950, Stahler co-founded the CPS with a group of other socialist politicians and political theorists. He wrote a manifesto titled ‘Sordish Socialism,’ which caused a split within the party between the followers of Stahler’s ‘Sordish socialists’ and the Malenyevists. He invited the famous poet Bernard Circas to join the party ahead of their first elections in 1953, but was rejected.

In the ‘53 elections, he got just below 8% of the general vote, failing to pass the election threshold. After the election of President Rayne, he doubled his efforts to increase his party’s reach by opening new offices in every major city in Sordland.