AHC: Make the Spartacist Uprising succeed, and what happens next?

Honestly, I know very little about this topic, beyond the one or two paragraphs of information you can find with Google. The Spartacist Uprising of 1919 in Germany was crushed, apparently due to the indecisiveness of its leadership (between reformists and revolutionaries), and failed utterly to usher in a communist government. Is there any way to make it succeed? And what will happen in Germany afterward?
 
It is really hard to see the Sparticist uprising succeeding. Germany was not Russia. There was a much larger middle class, a much larger reformist labor movement, the army did not consist of land-hungry radicalized peasants-in-uniform, and there were the "unofficial" Freikorps as well. And in addition, of course, Noske and Ebert had seen what had happened in Russia and had no intention of sharing Kerensky's fate. Finally, if all else failed, couldn't there be Allied intervention to prevent "Bolshevism" from taking over Germany?

It's not just retrospective wisdom to say the odds against success were very high. Rosa Luxemburg was aware that the balance of forces was against the revolutionaries--but with the workers already in the streets, she felt she had to go along with them. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeJWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA29
 
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Honestly, I know very little about this topic, beyond the one or two paragraphs of information you can find with Google. The Spartacist Uprising of 1919 in Germany was crushed, apparently due to the indecisiveness of its leadership (between reformists and revolutionaries), and failed utterly to usher in a communist government. Is there any way to make it succeed? And what will happen in Germany afterward?

No. Even if they took command of Berlin then the Freikorps were just too well armed and that was without the Regular Army.
 
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