n.
Pronunciation: ' spär-t ə -sist
Function: noun
Etymology: German Spartakist, from Spartakusbund, literally, league of Spartakus, a revolutionary organization, from Spartakus, pen name of Karl Liebknecht, its cofounder
Date: 1919
: a member of a revolutionary political group organized in Germany in 1918 and advocating extreme socialistic doctrines