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REVISIONIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does revisionist mean?
• REVISIONIST (noun)
The noun REVISIONIST has 1 sense:
1. a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position
Familiarity information: REVISIONIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("revisionist" is a kind of...):
commie; communist (a socialist who advocates communism)
Derivation:
revisionism (a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism)
revisionism (any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx)
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