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Noun: revisionist  ri'vi-zhu-nist
  1. Someone who advocates some change to previously accepted ideas or beliefs
    "The revisionist historian challenged the traditional narrative of the country's founding"
     
  2. A Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position
    "The party leadership denounced him as a revisionist for suggesting market reforms"

Derived forms: revisionists

Type of: commie [informal], commo [informal], communist, red [informal]

Encyclopedia: Revisionist