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Antirevisionism
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In the communist lexicon, anti-revisionism is opposition to attempts to revise, modify, or abandon the fundamentals of revolutionary theory and practice. In this view, reformism within communism is rejected as representing dangerous concessions to communism's adversaries. • • • Because different political trends trace the historical roots of revisionism to different eras and leaders, there is significant disagreement today as to what constitutes anti-revisionism. Therefore, modern groups which describe themselves as anti-revisionist fall into several categories. They universally tend to oppose Trotskyism and de-Stalinization; however, some uphold the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, and some the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin while rejecting Mao. In addition, other groups uphold various less well-known historical leaders, such as Enver Hoxha. • • • Historically, anti-revisionists presented a critique of the official Communist Parties 'from the left' for having abandoned orthodox Marxism–Leninism. The terminological disagreement can be confusing because different versions of a left-right political spectrum are used. Anti-revisionists consider themselves the ultimate leftists on a spectrum from communism on the left to imperialist capitalism on the right. But Stalinism is often labeled rightist within the communist spectrum and left communism leftist. In the wake of Khrushchev's speech to the 20th Congress of the C.P.S.U, the defense of Stalin and his legacy became a hallmark of anti-revisionism. In the 1970s the anti-revisionist movement expanded and diversified to encompass those communists who rejected a pro-Soviet orientation for one aligned either with Chinese or Albanian positions. • • • Anti-revisionism enjoyed its moment of greatest size and influence with numerous Marxist–Leninist and Maoist parties, groups and publications springing up around the world in the period which began with the Sino-Soviet split of the early 1960s. Its growth was greatly accelerated by international enthusiasm for the Cultural Revolution in China, but it began to decline in response to controversial Chinese foreign policy decisions in the last years of Mao Zedong's life, his death and the subsequent defeat of the Gang of Four. Some anti-revisionists responded to these events with little change to their theoretical orientation, others adjusted their orientation based on world events, while still remaining in the greater anti-revisionist milieu, while yet others took up a non-Trotskyist 'left-wing' communism, independent of allegiance to foreign authorities or models, usually abandoning their claim to anti-revisionism in the process. • • • Self-proclaimed anti-revisionists firmly oppose the reforms initiated in Communist countries by leaders like Nikita Khrushchev in the Soviet Union and Deng Xiaoping in China. They generally refer to such reforms and states as state capitalist and social-imperialist. They also reject Trotskyism and its 'Permanent Revolution' as 'hypocritical' by arguing that Leon Trotsky had at one time thought it acceptable that socialism could work in a single country as long as that country was industrialized, but that Trotsky had considered Russia too backward to achieve such industrialization – what it later in fact did achieve, mostly through his archenemy Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans. • • • In their own right, anti-revisionists also acknowledge that the Soviet Union contained a 'new class' or ''red' bourgeoisie,' but they generally place the blame for the formation of that class on Khrushchev and his successors, and not on Stalin. Therefore, in anti-revisionist circles, there is very little talk of class conflict in the Soviet Union before 1956, except when talking about specific contexts such as the Russian Civil War and World War II. • • • Video Empire produces videos read aloud. Use the information in this video at your own risk. We cannot always guarantee accuracy. • • This video uses material from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-re..., licensed with CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. This video is licensed with CC Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... In order to adapt this content it is required to comply with the license terms. Image licensing information is available via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-re...
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