Valerie Stepanoff

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Valerie Stepanoff was a Cirréonese philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Her best known works are her pamphlet Black Capital, and her book Capital, And Its Crushing Weight, both written during the height of the Cirréonese Industrial Revolution; the latter being a critical analysis of capitalismemploying philosophical and economic concepts to call for the collectivisation of the means of production in the workers by means of a revolution. Stepanoff's ideas and their subsequent development, collectively known as Stepanism, have had enormous influence on modern intellectual, economic and political history, especially in Cirréone, whereby Classical Stepanism is the state ideology.

Born in Léttona in the Republic of Cirréone, Stepanoff studied at the University of Milacieur and received a doctorate in philosophy at age 24.