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Anti-revisionism
Anti-revisionism is a position among communists that seeks to oppose revisionism and opportunism in all its forms while remaining true to Marxist principles. Anti-revisionism was practiced as early as Vladimir Lenin, who wrote works such as Marxism and Revisionism which analyzed so-called "evolutionary socialism" and other reformist trends. Anti-revisionism in its modern form emerged in the 1950s and 1960s as a reaction to the rise of Nikita Khrushchev and his policy of de-Stalinization, with Enver Hoxha and Mao Zedong spearheading the movement to defend Joseph Stalin from Khrushchev's attacks. In the modern day, anti-revisionists generally belong to either "Hoxhaism" or Maoism.
Concepts
Despite the often large political differences between the two major schools of anti-revisionism — Albanian and Chinese — there are some shared concepts in their thought.
Capitalist restoration in socialist states
Anti-revisionists generally hold that the Soviet Union underwent capitalist restoration after about 1956, when Khrushchev declared the proletarian dictatorship over and replaced with a "state of the whole people." Unlike many Marxist–Leninists, who argue that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, while making a considerable mistake, did not amount to a fundamental change in the Soviet Union's character as a socialist state.
External links
- Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line, on the Marxists Internet Archive