n. One who favors or supports revision, as in the case of a creed or a statute.
n. A reviser; specifically, one of the revisers of the English version of the Bible. See revised version of the Bible, under version.
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n. a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position
Word Usage
"Since almost all social democratic parties have long since abandoned any claim to Marxist revolutionary orthodoxy, the label revisionist hardly applies to them any longer; the con - tinuity in regarding revisionism as a form of bourgeois ideology within the socialist camp has been maintained."