Revisionism - Revision history

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	'''Revisionism''' is a fundamental alteration of a theory, essentially usurping (though taking elements of) the former theory and replacing it with a new one. While the attributes of a theory are subject to change in accordance to changing historic circumstances, changing the fundamental basis of that theory is to nullify it in place of a new one.		'''Revisionism''' is a fundamental alteration of a theory, essentially usurping (though taking elements of) the former theory and replacing it with a new one. While the attributes of a theory are subject to change in accordance to changing historic circumstances, changing the fundamental basis of that theory is to nullify it in place of a new one.

			Revising the fundamental premises of Marxist theory is often done in attempt to make alliances with the bourgeoisie or to render a working class movement impotent. Explicit revisionism clearly states that Marxism is wrong or outdated and needs to be changed. Implicit revisionism is harder to notice because it claims to still be Marxist, but in actuality puts forward positions that are counter to Marxist theory.

	Revisionist theory, politics and praxis are only so when examined through the lens of [[dialectical materialism]] and found incorrect in one of two ways: either contradicting past successes, such as the [[vanguard party]], which was proven successful with the [[Bolsheviks]], [[Communist_Party_of_Vietnam\|Communist Party of Vietnam]], and the [[Communist Party of China]], or by pushing errors with a history of failure and incoherence. The [[Narodniks]] were unable to cohesively grasp that the [[Feudalism\|feudal]] [[landlord]] and [[Peasantry\|peasant]] ends with the capital production of agriculture.		Revisionist theory, politics and praxis are only so when examined through the lens of [[dialectical materialism]] and found incorrect in one of two ways: either contradicting past successes, such as the [[vanguard party]], which was proven successful with the [[Bolsheviks]], [[Communist_Party_of_Vietnam\|Communist Party of Vietnam]], and the [[Communist Party of China]], or by pushing errors with a history of failure and incoherence. The [[Narodniks]] were unable to cohesively grasp that the [[Feudalism\|feudal]] [[landlord]] and [[Peasantry\|peasant]] ends with the capital production of agriculture.
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	== Left & Right Deviation ==		== Left & Right Deviation ==
	[[Trotskyism]] and [[Maoism]] are often described within [[Marxism–Leninism\|Marxism Leninism]] circles as [[Ultra-leftism\|left deviations]] that do not engage in sufficient [[Criticism\|criticism and self-criticism]] and thus fall off the path of [[scientific socialism]]. In parallel, reformism is a right deviation that cedes one of the fundamental aims of [[Marxism]]: the abolition of and replacement by [[Dictatorship of the proletariat\|proletarian structures]] regarding the [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois control]] over the [[means of production]].		Mao called "Right Opportunism" "even more dangerous than dogmatism".<ref>{{Library citation\|link=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:On_the_Correct_Handling_of_Contradictions_Among_the_People\|quote=Revisionism, or Right opportunism, is a bourgeois trend of thought that is even more dangerous than dogmatism. The revisionists, the Right opportunists, pay lip-service to Marxism; they too attack ‘dogmatism’. But what they are really attacking is the quintessence of Marxism. They oppose or distort materialism and dialectics, oppose or try to weaken the people’s democratic dictatorship and the leading role of the Communist Party, and oppose or try to weaken socialist transformation and socialist construction. After the basic victory of the socialist revolution in our country, there are still a number of people who vainly hope to restore the capitalist system and fight the working class on every front, including the ideological one. And their right-hand men in this struggle are the revisionists.}}</ref> [[Trotskyism]] and [[Maoism]] are often described within [[Marxism–Leninism\|Marxism Leninism]] circles as [[Ultra-leftism\|left deviations]] that do not engage in sufficient [[Criticism\|criticism and self-criticism]] and thus fall off the path of [[scientific socialism]]. In parallel, reformism is a right deviation that cedes one of the fundamental aims of [[Marxism]]: the abolition of and replacement by [[Dictatorship of the proletariat\|proletarian structures]] regarding the [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois control]] over the [[means of production]].

	== Further Reading ==		== Further Reading ==

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	Revisionist theory, politics and praxis are only so when examined through the lens of [[dialectical materialism]] and found incorrect in one of two ways: either contradicting past successes, such as the [[vanguard party]], which was proven successful with the [[Bolsheviks]], [[Communist_Party_of_Vietnam\|Communist Party of Vietnam]], and the [[Communist Party of China]], or by pushing errors with a history of failure and incoherence. The [[Narodniks]] were unable to cohesively grasp that the [[Feudalism\|feudal]] [[landlord]] and [[Peasantry\|peasant]] ends with the capital production of agriculture.		Revisionist theory, politics and praxis are only so when examined through the lens of [[dialectical materialism]] and found incorrect in one of two ways: either contradicting past successes, such as the [[vanguard party]], which was proven successful with the [[Bolsheviks]], [[Communist_Party_of_Vietnam\|Communist Party of Vietnam]], and the [[Communist Party of China]], or by pushing errors with a history of failure and incoherence. The [[Narodniks]] were unable to cohesively grasp that the [[Feudalism\|feudal]] [[landlord]] and [[Peasantry\|peasant]] ends with the capital production of agriculture.

			According to Vietnam’s Curriculum of the Philosophy of Marxism-Leninism For University and College Students Specializing in Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, the opposite of Dogmatism is Revisionism. Revisionism occurs when we overestimate the Private and fail to recognize commonalities. In failing to recognize common attributes and features between and within things, phenomena, and ideas, the Revisionist faces confusion and disorientation whenever they encounter any new things, phenomena, and ideas, because they lack any insight into essential characteristics of the subject and its relations with other subjects.<ref>https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Curriculum_of_the_Basic_Principles_of_Marxism-Leninism_Part_1</ref>

	[[Eduard Bernstein]], infamously noted in [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]]'s "What is to be done", was a leading theoretician of the German [[Social Democratic Party of Germany\|Social Democratic Party]] who originated the revisionist theory of [[evolutionary socialism]]. He rejected Marxist concepts of [[class struggle]] and world revolution, liquidating [[Marxism]] and removing its revolutionary elements to focus entirely on [[reformism]].		[[Eduard Bernstein]], infamously noted in [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]]'s "What is to be done", was a leading theoretician of the German [[Social Democratic Party of Germany\|Social Democratic Party]] who originated the revisionist theory of [[evolutionary socialism]]. He rejected Marxist concepts of [[class struggle]] and world revolution, liquidating [[Marxism]] and removing its revolutionary elements to focus entirely on [[reformism]].

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	Revisionist theory, politics and praxis are only so when examined through the lens of [[dialectical materialism]] and found incorrect in one of two ways: either contradicting past successes, such as the [[vanguard party]], which was proven successful with the [[Bolsheviks]], [[Communist_Party_of_Vietnam\|Communist Party of Vietnam]], and the [[Communist Party of China]], or by pushing errors with a history of failure and incoherence. The [[Narodniks]] were unable to cohesively grasp that the [[Feudalism\|feudal]] [[landlord]] and [[Peasantry\|peasant]] ends with the capital production of agriculture.		Revisionist theory, politics and praxis are only so when examined through the lens of [[dialectical materialism]] and found incorrect in one of two ways: either contradicting past successes, such as the [[vanguard party]], which was proven successful with the [[Bolsheviks]], [[Communist_Party_of_Vietnam\|Communist Party of Vietnam]], and the [[Communist Party of China]], or by pushing errors with a history of failure and incoherence. The [[Narodniks]] were unable to cohesively grasp that the [[Feudalism\|feudal]] [[landlord]] and [[Peasantry\|peasant]] ends with the capital production of agriculture.

	[[Eduard Bernstein~~\|Eduard Berstein~~]], infamously noted in [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]]'s "What is to be done", was a leading theoretician of the German [[Social Democratic Party of Germany\|Social Democratic Party]] who originated the revisionist theory of [[evolutionary socialism]]. He rejected Marxist concepts of [[class struggle]] and world revolution, liquidating [[Marxism]] and removing its revolutionary elements to focus entirely on [[reformism]].		[[Eduard Bernstein]], infamously noted in [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]]'s "What is to be done", was a leading theoretician of the German [[Social Democratic Party of Germany\|Social Democratic Party]] who originated the revisionist theory of [[evolutionary socialism]]. He rejected Marxist concepts of [[class struggle]] and world revolution, liquidating [[Marxism]] and removing its revolutionary elements to focus entirely on [[reformism]].

	== Left & Right Deviation ==		== Left & Right Deviation ==

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	== References ==		== References ==
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	== Further Reading ==		== Further Reading ==
	~~How to Be a Good Communist, Chapter 9<ref>~~{{Citation\|author=Liu Shaoqi\|year=1939\|title=How to Be a Good Communist\|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/index.htm\|chapter=IX Attitudes Towards Wrong Ideology in the Party and Towards Inner-Party Struggle\|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/}}~~</ref>~~		* {{Citation\|author=Liu Shaoqi\|year=1939\|title=How to Be a Good Communist\|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/index.htm\|chapter=IX Attitudes Towards Wrong Ideology in the Party and Towards Inner-Party Struggle\|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/}}

	==See Also==		==See Also==

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	== Left & Right Deviation ==		== Left & Right Deviation ==
	[[Trotskyism]] and [[Maoism]] are often described within [[Marxism–Leninism\|Marxism Leninism]] circles as left deviations that do not engage in sufficient [[Criticism\|criticism and self-criticism]] and thus fall off the path of [[scientific socialism]]. In parallel, reformism is a right deviation that cedes one of the fundamental aims of [[Marxism]]: the abolition of and replacement by [[Dictatorship of the proletariat\|proletarian structures]] regarding the [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois control]] over the [[means of production]].		[[Trotskyism]] and [[Maoism]] are often described within [[Marxism–Leninism\|Marxism Leninism]] circles as [[Ultra-leftism\|left deviations]] that do not engage in sufficient [[Criticism\|criticism and self-criticism]] and thus fall off the path of [[scientific socialism]]. In parallel, reformism is a right deviation that cedes one of the fundamental aims of [[Marxism]]: the abolition of and replacement by [[Dictatorship of the proletariat\|proletarian structures]] regarding the [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois control]] over the [[means of production]].

	== Further Reading ==		== Further Reading ==

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	[[Eduard Bernstein\|Eduard Berstein]], infamously noted in [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]]'s "What is to be done", was a leading theoretician of the German [[Social Democratic Party of Germany\|Social Democratic Party]] who originated the revisionist theory of [[evolutionary socialism]]. He rejected Marxist concepts of [[class struggle]] and world revolution, liquidating [[Marxism]] and removing its revolutionary elements to focus entirely on [[reformism]].		[[Eduard Bernstein\|Eduard Berstein]], infamously noted in [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]]'s "What is to be done", was a leading theoretician of the German [[Social Democratic Party of Germany\|Social Democratic Party]] who originated the revisionist theory of [[evolutionary socialism]]. He rejected Marxist concepts of [[class struggle]] and world revolution, liquidating [[Marxism]] and removing its revolutionary elements to focus entirely on [[reformism]].

			== Left & Right Deviation ==
			[[Trotskyism]] and [[Maoism]] are often described within [[Marxism–Leninism\|Marxism Leninism]] circles as left deviations that do not engage in sufficient [[Criticism\|criticism and self-criticism]] and thus fall off the path of [[scientific socialism]]. In parallel, reformism is a right deviation that cedes one of the fundamental aims of [[Marxism]]: the abolition of and replacement by [[Dictatorship of the proletariat\|proletarian structures]] regarding the [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois control]] over the [[means of production]].

	==See Also==		==See Also==
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	*[[Anti-Revisionism\|Anti-revisionism]]		*[[Anti-Revisionism\|Anti-revisionism]]
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			== References ==
	[[Category:Marxist terminology]]		[[Category:Marxist terminology]]

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	Revisionist theory, politics and praxis are only so when examined through the lens of [[dialectical materialism]] and found incorrect in one of two ways: either contradicting past successes, such as the [[vanguard party]], which was proven successful with the [[Bolsheviks]], [[Communist_Party_of_Vietnam\|Communist Party of Vietnam]], and the [[Communist Party of China]], or by pushing errors with a history of failure and incoherence. The [[Narodniks]] were unable to cohesively grasp that the [[Feudalism\|feudal]] [[landlord]] and [[Peasantry\|peasant]] ends with the capital production of agriculture.		Revisionist theory, politics and praxis are only so when examined through the lens of [[dialectical materialism]] and found incorrect in one of two ways: either contradicting past successes, such as the [[vanguard party]], which was proven successful with the [[Bolsheviks]], [[Communist_Party_of_Vietnam\|Communist Party of Vietnam]], and the [[Communist Party of China]], or by pushing errors with a history of failure and incoherence. The [[Narodniks]] were unable to cohesively grasp that the [[Feudalism\|feudal]] [[landlord]] and [[Peasantry\|peasant]] ends with the capital production of agriculture.

	[[Eduard Berstein]], infamously noted in [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]]'s "What is to be done", was a leading theoretician of the German [[Social Democratic Party of Germany\|Social Democratic Party]] who originated the revisionist theory of [[evolutionary socialism]]. He rejected Marxist concepts of [[class struggle]] and world revolution, liquidating [[Marxism]] and removing its revolutionary elements to focus entirely on [[reformism]].		[[Eduard Bernstein\|Eduard Berstein]], infamously noted in [[Vladimir Lenin\|Lenin]]'s "What is to be done", was a leading theoretician of the German [[Social Democratic Party of Germany\|Social Democratic Party]] who originated the revisionist theory of [[evolutionary socialism]]. He rejected Marxist concepts of [[class struggle]] and world revolution, liquidating [[Marxism]] and removing its revolutionary elements to focus entirely on [[reformism]].

	==See Also==		==See Also==

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	== Left & Right Deviation ==		== Left & Right Deviation ==
	[[Trotskyism]] and [[Maoism]] are often described within [[Marxism–Leninism\|Marxism Leninism]] circles as left deviations that do not engage in sufficient [[Criticism\|criticism and self-criticism]] and thus fall off the path of [[scientific socialism]]. In parallel, reformism is a right deviation that cedes one of the fundamental aims of [[Marxism]]: the abolition of and replacement by [[Dictatorship of the proletariat\|proletarian structures]] regarding the [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois control]] over the [[means of production]].		[[Trotskyism]] and [[Maoism]] are often described within [[Marxism–Leninism\|Marxism Leninism]] circles as left deviations that do not engage in sufficient [[Criticism\|criticism and self-criticism]] and thus fall off the path of [[scientific socialism]]. In parallel, reformism is a right deviation that cedes one of the fundamental aims of [[Marxism]]: the abolition of and replacement by [[Dictatorship of the proletariat\|proletarian structures]] regarding the [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie\|bourgeois control]] over the [[means of production]].

			== Further Reading ==
			How to Be a Good Communist, Chapter 9<ref>{{Citation\|author=Liu Shaoqi\|year=1939\|title=How to Be a Good Communist\|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/index.htm\|chapter=IX Attitudes Towards Wrong Ideology in the Party and Towards Inner-Party Struggle\|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/}}</ref>

	==See Also==		==See Also==

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	*[[Anti-Revisionism\|Anti-revisionism]]		*[[Anti-Revisionism\|Anti-revisionism]]
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