revisionism

Definitions

1. The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
   countable, uncountable
2. An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.
   Marxism, countable, derogatory, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.”

“Meanwhile, Holocaust survivors are dying every day. There are few left to protest⟳ the new revisionism.”

“Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.””

“For inspiration, they [Orbán’s fellow anti-liberal counterrevolutionaries] look⟳ to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, whose national chauvinism, banning of “gender ideology” and “gay propaganda,” and revisionism against the world order⟳ fit well with their agenda.”

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