Definition of "revisionist" []

• Of or pertaining to revisionism (adjective)
• A proponent of revisionism (noun)

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• "Since almost all social democratic parties have long since abandoned any claim to Marxist revolutionary orthodoxy, the label revisionist hardly applies to them any longer; the con - tinuity in regarding revisionism as a form of bourgeois ideology within the socialist camp has been maintained."
• "When we use the term revisionist, however, we generally mean something more fundamental: a writer who tries to change the reader's mind in a major way by providing a new general interpretation, one that sharply and thoroughly reexamines the established way of looking at a matter."
• "But over the years, I just want to be sure that we don't get engaged in what I call revisionist history."