revisionism
[ri-vizh-uh-niz-uh m]
noun
advocacy or approval of revision.
any departure from Marxist doctrine, theory, or practice, especially the tendency to favor reform above revolutionary change.
a departure from any authoritative or generally accepted doctrine, theory, practice, etc.
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blasphemy, fallacy, dissent, infidelity, defection, impiety, disbelief, nonconformity, divergence, schism, atheism, error, apostasy, sin, dissidence, iconoclasm, secularism, heterodoxy, agnosticism, sectarianism
Origin of revisionism
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Contemporary Examples of revisionism
And what would an enterprise featuring Ron Paul be without a little Civil War revisionism?
Untold numbers of Americans—and American liberals at that—were eager to engage in revisionism of their own.
But before the revisionism about this conflict starts to set in, at least tonight there is one thing we can all agree on.
But before we describe those circumstances, a quick caveat: We're obviously talking here about "revisionism" within limits.
There is nothing inherently wrong with revisionism when it is called for and based on solid new information.
revisionism
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