revisionisms

Noun

revisionism (countable and uncountable, plural revisionisms)

1. The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
   • Tories spent last week boldly whistling their unique brand of the kind of historical revisionism that has played a major part in getting us here.2018 October 8, Anne Perkins, “A Dad’s Army-style Brexit looms. ‘Don’t panic!’”, in The Guardian
2. (Marxism, derogatory, often) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.
   • Strictly speaking, revisionism was regarded as a theoretical position, but its articulation by Bernstein in the later 1890s was preceded by political tendencies which led to the same direction.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...