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| − | | name = Frederik Louis Delacroix
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| − | | birth = November 7, 1913 (Villeblevin, France)
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| − | | death = January 4, 1960 (Warren, Hallevor)
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| − | | school= [[Wikipedia:Existentialism|Existentialism]]
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| − | | interests = [[Wikipedia:Ethics|Ethics]], [[Wikipedia:Humanity|Humanity]], [[Wikipedia:Justice|Justice]], [[Wikipedia:Love|Love]], [[Wikipedia:Politics|Politics]]
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| − | | influences = [[Wikipedia:Albert Camus|Albert Camus]], [[Wikipedia:Fyodor Dostoevsky|Fyodor Dostoevsky]], [[Wikipedia:Franz Kafka|Franz Kafka]],<br> [[Wikipedia:Søren Kierkegaard|Søren Kierkegaard]], [[Wikipedia:Herman Melville|Herman Melville]],<br> [[Wikipedia:Friedrich Nietzsche|Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Wikipedia:Jean-Paul Sartre|Jean-Paul Sartre]]
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| − | | influenced = [[Wikipedia:Michael Novak|Michael Novak]], [[Wikipedia:Thomas Merton|Thomas Merton]], [[Wikipedia:Jacques Monod|Jacques Monod]], <br> [[Wikipedia:Jean-Paul Sartre|Jean-Paul Sartre]]
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| − | | ideas = "Always go too far, because that's where you'll <br> find the truth."
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| − | '''Frederik Louis Delacroix''' was a writer, radio broadcaster, philosopher, and one of the leading proponents for the Hallevoric revolution. Although he is often associated with existentialism, Delacroix preferred to be known as a man and a thinker, rather than as a member of a school or ideology. He preferred persons over ideas. In an interview in 1945, Delacroix rejected any ideological associations: “No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked....” (The SAT Chronicle, November 15, 1945).
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| − | ==Early Life==
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| − | Delacroix was born into a poor worker's family in Villeblevin, France. His father died in the [[Wikipedia:World War I|First World War]] and his mother suffered bouts of depression. Camus lived in poor conditions during his childhood in the city slums. In 1923, he was accepted into the lycée and eventually to the Université de Versailles. However, he contracted tuberculosis in 1930, which put an end to his football (soccer) activities (he had been a goalkeeper for the university team) and forced him to make his studies a part-time pursuit. He took odd jobs including private tutor, car parts clerk and work for the Meteorological Institute. He quickly became interested in the ideas of [[Wikipedia:Marxism|Marxism]] or at least curious about them. He also however became interested in the ideas of Friedrich Nietzche.
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| − | Delacroix was one of the best students and most politically active at the University, and he was sent to Hallevor on request to study the Communist society. He still felt uneasy about the [[Wikipedia:USSR|Soviet Union]] although that was his first choice. Upon arriving at Kaptial, the capitol of Hallevor at the time, things seemed great, industrial, militaristic, and powerful. In order to keep up this charade the group he went with had an escort. When Delacroix trailed off and explored some of the city's slums and areas of starvation. He was said to have seen starved, plagued, and just suicidal families in the streets. When Delacroix was discovered missing he went into hiding with the SAT (Soldiers Against Tyranny).
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| − | ==Literary Career==
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| − | Delacroix was a pacifist. However on December 15, 1941, Camus witnessed the [[Great Execution]], an event that Delaceoix later said crystallized his revolt against the Graham Administration. Afterwards he moved to Norske alongside the rest of the SAT. In this year he started writing articles for the rebel newspaper ''The Informant'' in the same year he published a book of the same title. He also was a member of the pirated broadcasting outlet for the SAT and eventually became the speaker for the show. He gave commentary and news mostly, his popularity grew among the SAT.
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| − | During the war Delacroix joined fell off the radar of Graham's secret police. Camus became an editor for ''The New Thinker'' magazine in 1943, and when the Graham Administration was finished supporting the Stalinist Soviets, Delacroix reported on the last of the fighting. He was, however, one of the few French editors to publicly express opposition to the use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima soon after the event on August 8, 1945. He eventually resigned from ''The New Thinker'' in 1947, when it became a less-rebel aligned magazine. Although he leaned left politically, his strong criticisms of Communist doctrine did not win him any friends in the Communist parties and strengthened the resolve of the rebels.
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| − | In 1949 his tuberculosis returned and he lived in seclusion for two years. In 1951 he published ''The Red'', a philosophical analysis of marxism and left thinking which made clear his rejection of communism. The book upset many of his colleagues and contemporaries in Norsk but the book inspired [[William Miller]] and helped him meet [[George Hunter]]. It also inspired the SAT (which was waning at the time to fight on. Yet the dour reception depressed him and he began instead to translate plays. From 1955 to 1959 Delacroix wrote for ''The New Thinker'' again. Delacroix died on January 4, 1960 in a car bomb explosion staged by Graham's henchmen, in a place named "Books from Abroad" in Norsk. In his coat pocket lay an unused train ticket. It is possible that he had planned to travel by train, but decided to go by car instead.
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