explain the role played by the spartacist league
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The Spartacus League was a Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. The League was named after Spartacus, leader of the largest slave rebellionof the Roman Republic. It was founded by Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Clara Zetkin, and others. The League subsequently renamed itself the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), joining the Comintern in 1919. Its period of greatest activity was during the German Revolution of 1918, when it sought to incite a revolution by circulating the newspaper Spartacus Letters.
They went into action only AFTER WW1.They tried to seize power in Berlin in late 1918 and early 1919.They were easily defeated by the Freekorps (disbanded war vets.) who then summarily executed their leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht.They (the Spartacists) were just a group of communists playing at revolution and they paid dearly for their indulgence