Spartacist

Spartacist

Spartacist may refer to:
*Spartacus, who led a slave rebellion against the Roman Empire
*The Spartacist League, a left-wing Marxist revolutionary movement in Germany during and just after World War I
*The modern Spartacist League, the International Communist League, a Trotskyist international organisation
* The eighteenth-century movement started by Adam Weishaupt, also known as the Order of the Illuminati


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  • Spartacist — [ spα:təsɪst, təkɪst] noun a member of the Spartacus League, a German revolutionary socialist group founded in 1916. Origin from Spartacus, the pseudonym of one of its founders (orig. the name of a rebellious Roman slave) …   English new terms dictionary

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