Talk:Spartacist uprising/Archive 1

Involvement of Liebknecht and Luxemburg
neither liebknecht and certainly not luxemburg advocated the violent overthrow of the government.

because of the similarity of names, "Luxemburg", I remember reading she was, virulently, against the Weimar Republic. you have a citation? (Paleocon44 (talk) 05:38, 17 January 2011 (UTC))

Internal disagreement
The title "Die Stunde der Abrechnung naht!" is more closely translated as: "The hour of reckoning is near," does the embellished version not tend to express POV? Richard Sidler 09:33, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Introduction, conflicting statements in related articles
The last sentence of the introduction seems misplaced and open to misinterpretation as to what exactly "Their" refers to. Also it is stated that "neither the Spartacus League nor the KPD planned, initiated nor led this uprising".

Whereas, in the Spartacus League article, there is this sentence:

"In December 1918, the Spartakusbund was officially renamed the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In January 1919, the KPD, along with the Independent Socialists, launched the Spartacist uprising."

And in the article on Rosa Luxemburg, there is a third version of the event:

"[Luxemburg] considered the 1919 Spartacist uprising a blunder, but supported it after Liebknecht ordered it without her knowledge."

These articles obviously need some aligning, preferably by someone more knowledgeable than myself.Transmogriff (talk) 17:37, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Merge?
What is there to merge, exactly? There are no refs/sources in this thing! Even the external links go to a personal website and a blog...

However, I do think the event merits its own entry in WP.Drow69 (talk) 19:14, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Do not merge; they're discrete phenomena. Merging would tend to paint the Spartacist event as effectively the sole factor in the whole rather than one element in the larger German Revolution itself. Chris Rodgers (talk) 22:52, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Do not merge, for reasons given by Chris Rodgers. e.g. see Ruhr Uprising! Leutha (talk) 23:27, 14 September 2013 (UTC)


 * There is a much more detailed account of this event here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%9319#Founding_of_the_Communist_Party_and_the_January_Revolt Maybe that account should be pasted in wholesale and a shorter version posted there, with a link to this article? Ghostofnemo (talk) 03:18, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I just took a whack at it. Ghostofnemo (talk) 04:09, 30 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree with Chris Rodgers--do not merge-- for those reasons. It merits an entry of its own.  It also merits references.  I tweaked the grammar and flow a bit, but I don't have the sources readily available to create the proper notes for it.  auntieruth (talk) 20:18, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
 * There is no reason to merge. This is a prominent event in-and-of itself. <> Alt lys er svunnet hen (talk) 05:39, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Absolutely. This is clearly a notable event in its own right. —Brigade Piron (talk) 08:39, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Moderate vs Radical
These adjectives are too emotive, insufficiently objective. What is the present consensus among professional historians as to how to refer to these political groups? I would be disappointed to learn that the consensus is that one group is referred to as moderate and the other as radical. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:410:A014:20:80A7:8526:20D9:DFBB (talk) 14:42, 11 January 2019 (UTC)