Spartacus League
The Spartacus League (German: [Spartakusbund] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) was a Marxist revolutionary movement in Germany during World War I.[1] The League was named after Spartacus, leader of the largest slave rebellion of the Roman Republic. Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, and others started the group. The League later changed its name to the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD). It joined the Comintern in 1919. It was most active during the German Revolution of 1918. The League wanted to start a revolution through its newspaper, Spartacus Letters.[2]
Well-known members
Spartacus League Media
- Rosa Luxemburg Pinkau.jpg
Portrait photography. Depicted person: Rosa Luxemburg – German-Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary, editor (1871–1919)
- Zetkin luxemburg1910.jpg
Clara Zetkin (left) with Rosa Luxemburg in 1910.
- Karl Liebknecht 001.jpg
Karl Liebknecht
- Bundesarchiv Bild 175-01448, Berlin, Reichskanzlei, Philipp Scheidemann.jpg
Philipp Scheidemann proclaiming the German Republic from a window of the Reichstag building.
- Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00015, Friedrich Ebert.jpg
- For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme.
- Rote-Fahne-1918.jpg
Deckblatt und Logo der "Roten Fahne" vom 23. November 1918
- Hinein in die KPD! (cropped).jpg
Poster urging people to join the KPD (Spartacus League). The figure addressing the crowd is Karl Liebknecht.
- Spartakus bei der Arbeit LCCN2004665806.tif
Anti-Spartacus poster. It reads: "Spartacus at work… Association for Combating Bolshevism".