Spartist

English Etymology From en Dave Spart ist stereotypical left-winger, itself a clipping of en Spartacist member of the communist Spartacist League. Noun en humorous A left-winger, particularly a revolutionary but bourgeois one. en 1982 Private Eye ... At this party, some local Spartists differed on fundamental issues of principle, their collective consciousness heightened by quantities of drink. en 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. en 2000 Nick Cohen Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous Verso 9781859842881 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. en 2002-01-04 David Hornbrook Education and Dramatic Art Routledge 9781134702282 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. Synonyms champagne socialist Adjective en humorous Far-left, particularly of a revolutionary but bourgeois nature. en 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. en 1989 Tom Milne The Time Out Film Guide [...] and what a Spartist crew they are — all revolutionary clap-trap and middle class guilt. en 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. en 2017-07-20 Stuart Maconie Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now Random House 9781473527683 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. en Private Eye