Spartist

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English

Etymology

From Dave Spart (“stereotypical left-winger”) +‎ -ist, itself a clipping of Spartacist (“member of the communist Spartacist League”).

Noun

Spartist (plural Spartists)

  1. (humorous) A left-winger, particularly a revolutionary but bourgeois one.
    • 1982, Private Eye:
      ... At this party, some local Spartists differed on fundamental issues of principle, their collective consciousness heightened by quantities of drink.
    • 1996, New Statesman:
      [...] the Spartists in the new universities when they found that a non- white , a man whose tattoos could be seen so clearly , had been painted in the same classical manner as an English aristocrat.
    • 2000, Nick Cohen, Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous, Verso, →ISBN, page 102:
      [...] there is a hackneyed line of attack against their kind. They are Spartists, bleeding hearts , do-gooders , limousine liberals who probably live in Hampstead and care more about criminals than their victims.
    • 2002 January 4, David Hornbrook, Education and Dramatic Art, Routledge, →ISBN, page 91:
      Despite these very real differences, certain common themes can be traced in the writings of those – quietists and Spartists alike – promoting spontaneous improvisation and role-play during the 1980s and 1990s.

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Adjective

Spartist (comparative more Spartist, superlative most Spartist)

  1. (humorous) Far-left, particularly of a revolutionary but bourgeois nature.
    • 1983, The Listener:
      In between putting the finishing touches to the theory of 'permanent revolution', he even manages a flirtation with the wife of a fellow guest ... and not a spartist gesture in sight.
    • 1989, Tom Milne, The Time Out Film Guide:
      [...] and what a Spartist crew they are — all revolutionary clap-trap and middle class guilt.
    • 2007, The Spectator:
      The C of E primary school that my children go to is a lot better than most , but , no matter how hard it tries, it will always be shackled by the left-liberal orthodoxy imposed on it by the governments, the unions and Spartist educational theorists.
    • 2017 July 20, Stuart Maconie, Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now, Random House, →ISBN:
      He's a political animal most thought had become extinct, a Spartist dinosaur reeking of hummus and hemp and definitely not the smoky fires of industry.
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