Spartacist

British  

/ ˈspɑːtəsɪst /

noun

1. a member of a group of German radical socialists formed in 1916 and in 1919 becoming the German Communist Party, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg

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Etymology

Origin of Spartacist

C20: from the pen name _Spartacus adopted by Karl Liebknecht

Example Sentences

Andy Serkis again provides the human performance template for Caesar, the genetically enhanced chimp raised by humans who leads a Spartacist revolt.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2017

The group eventually merged with a gay-friendly Trotskyite organization in New York called the Spartacist League, which offered Weinstein a leadership position, requiring him to move back to the East Coast.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2017

Locked away in cages with other apes in the hateful primate centre, Caesar achieves a kind of new Spartacist consciousness.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011

In the Spartacist Uprising of Berlin 1919, an initially small fracas expanded dramatically when political leaders, including Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, prodded their allies to turn out en masse.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2011

For in Germany about the time of the Armistice and during the Spartacist rising certain things happened which got themselves safely into the newspapers, and these he sets forth, mostly in headline form.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 by Various