Revisionism (Disambiguation): Difference between revisions

*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] - In the late 19th century, the term revisionism was used to describe democratic socialist writers such as [[File:Bernstein.png]] [[Reformist Marxism|Eduard Bernstein]], who sought to revise [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Karl Marx]]'s ideas about the transition to [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism]] and claimed that a revolution through force was not necessary to achieve a socialist society. The views of Bernstein gave rise to reformist theory, which asserts that socialism can be achieved through gradual peaceful reforms from within a [[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism|capitalist]] system.

*[[File:Khrusch.png]] [[Khrushchevism]] - [[File:Khrusch.png]] Khrushchev, after what many have described as a revisionist coup, began making many reforms in the USSR. He began a policy that turned away from hardline [[File:ML.png]] Marxism-Leninism, making controversial policies.

*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - In the 1920s and 1930s, Leon Trotsky accused the leadership of the Comintern and Soviet Union of revising the internationalist principles of Marxism and [[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] in favor of the aspirations of an elite bureaucratic caste which had come to power in the Soviet Union.

*[[File:Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism]] - Meanwhile, the Soviet authorities labeled the Trotskyists as "revisionists" and eventually expelled them from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.