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Noun: revisionism  ri'vi-zhu,ni-zum
  1. Any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx
    "Hardline communists accused the reformers of revisionism"
     
  2. A moderate evolutionary form of Marxism
    "Some political theorists argue that revisionism is a necessary adaptation of Marxist thought to modern conditions"
     
  3. Advocacy of some previously accepted ideas or beliefs, esp. in a way that seems to dishonestly ignore key facts or more recent developments
    "His historical revisionism downplayed the atrocities committed during the war"

Derived forms: revisionisms

Type of: Bolshevism, collectivism, sovietism

Encyclopedia: Revisionism