revisionist

[ UK /ɹɪvˈɪʒənˌɪst/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈvɪʒənɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position
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How To Use revisionist In A Sentence

  • For both conservatives and revisionists, revolutionary violence cannot be blamed on the revolution's opponents.
  • Apologists wishing to exploit a revisionist history of science invariably stress the profoundly religious orientation of many prominent scientists.
  • Their underlying idea is no different than that promoted by revisionist governments around the world.
  • It's set in a real city (Los Angeles) instead of a glamorized or revisionist version, like Gotham City. Archive 2009-12-01
  • It preferred a revisionist policy that would appeal to a larger section of the population.
  • Extensive efforts (intellectual, spiritual and structural) have been undertaken to establish this continuity and preserve it in light of the changing fabric of the human experience and to ignore these efforts in favor of some revisionist notion of religion as changing out of pure expedience is as cynical as it is ignorant. A Response to a Response
  • At party congresses, the revisionists, who argued for a reconciliation with the existing social order, were regularly outvoted.
  • He manages to avoid the revisionist, anti-establishment, overwhelmingly negative posturing.
  • His 1956 publication was the leading inspiration to revisionists in the Labour Party.
  • Revisionist history and silly displays of pro-feminism posturing, liberal agendas and the whitewashing of historical figures and places has no place in public education.
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