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
Word origin
C20: from the pen name Spartacus adopted by Karl Liebknecht
Examples of 'Spartacist' in a sentence
Spartacist
Amongst their triumphs, they could already count the murder of the Spartacist leaders, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.