REVISIONIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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