Revisionism (Disambiguation)

Revisionism or Marxist revisionism may refer to:


 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Social Democracy - In the late 19th century, the term revisionism was used to describe democratic socialist writers such as [[File:Bernst.png]] Eduard Bernstein, who sought to revise [[File:Ormarxf.png]] Karl Marx's ideas about the transition to [[File:Soc.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]] capitalist system.
 * [[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.