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Spartacus League
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Marxist revolutionary movement in Germany during World War I
Key facts
- Founders
- Karl Liebknecht , Rosa Luxemburg , Clara Zetkin
- Foundation
- 4 August 1914 ( 1914-08-04 )
- Dissolved
- 30 December 1918 ( 1918-12-30 )
- Split from
- Social Democratic Party
- Country
- German Empire , Weimar Republic
- Motives
- Opposition to German involvement in World War I Anti-monarchism Spread of socialism and communism Establishment of a socialist republic
- Ideology
- Marxism , Luxemburgism , Revolutionary socialism , Council communism , Left communism
- Political position
- Far-left
- Notable attacks
- Spartacist uprising
- Status
- Defunct
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political organization
- Named after
- Spartacus
- Official name
- Spartakusbund
- Country
- Germany
- Founded by
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Followed by
- Communist Party of Germany
- Image
- Stamps of Germany (DDR) 1966, MiNr 1154.jpg
- Political ideology
- communism
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- inception
- 1918-11-11
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1918-12-31
- Commons category
- Spartacus League
- different from
- Spartacist uprising
- facet of
- German Revolution of 1918–1919
- replaced by
- Communist Party of Germany
- house publication
- Die Rote Fahne
- has goal
- soviet republic
- P8168
- Mifflin
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Encyclopedic overview
The Spartacus League (German: Spartakusbund) was a left revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I and immediately thereafter. It was founded in August 1914 as the International Group by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and other members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who were dissatisfied with the party's official policies in support of the war. In 1916 it renamed itself the Spartacus Group and in 1917 joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), which had split off from the SPD as its left wing faction.
During the November Revolution of 1918 that broke out across Germany at the end of the war, the Spartacus Group re-established itself as a nationwide, non-party organization called the "Spartacus League" with the goal of instituting a council republic that would include all of Germany. It became part of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) when it was formed on 30 December 1918 and at that point ceased to exist as a separate entity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spartacus League” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.