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To an anti-revisionist, the Populist / People's War core of Maoism and the Anti-fascism of Stalin 's policies are seen as fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism that cannot be abandoned lest the principles of Communism as a whole be abandoned along with them. Anti-revisionism is seen by its followers as a healthy, solid, Scientific ideological road, devoid of both the alleged Corruption and Elitism of Trotskyism , and the perceived Idealism of Left Communism . The opposite term, Revisionism , is most often used Pejorative ly. In its original sense, "anti-revisionism" was used at the beginning of the twentieth century during the split between Leninist groups and Social Democracy . The Leninists called themselves "anti-revisionists" because they ''opposed the revisionists''; that is, opposed the Social Democrats who believed that Marx 's ideas should be ''revised'' to allow for the possibility of socialistic progress without Revolution . Self-proclaimed anti-revisionists firmly oppose the self-proclaimed Socialist Market Economy reforms initiated in Communist Countries by leaders like Khrushchev in the Soviet Union and Deng Xiaoping in China . They generally refer to such reforms and states as State Capitalist and Social-imperialist . The term ''anti-revisionist'' — while a positively-connotated term denoting an opposition to Trotskyism , Reformism , Left Communist currents, and Revisionism from the point of view of what adherents claim is a more truthfully revolutionary sector of the Radical Left — is nevertheless usually controversial among those who claim to adhere to it. Groups will sometimes fight over which of them is really the "true" anti-revisionist. During the Sino-Soviet Split , the governments of the People's Republic Of China under Mao Zedong and Albania under Hoxha proclaimed themselves taking an anti-revisionist line and denounced Khrushchev's policies. In the United States , those who supported China or Albania at the time were expelled from the United States Communist Party under orders from Moscow, and in 1961 they formed the Progressive Labor Movement . Anti-revisionist groups were further divided by the Sino-Albanian Split , with those following Albania being loosely described as Hoxhaist . Several other small Stalinist or Maoist political parties in the United States , such as the Revolutionary Communist Party USA , see themselves as anti-revisionist. Not every contemporary Communist Party adhering to elements of anti-revisionism necessarily adopts the label "anti-revisionist". These organizations may call themselves Maoist , Marxist-Leninist or even just simply "revolutionary communist". The Workers Party Of Korea still claims an anti-revisionist political line. However, this may not be an accurate label either in self-description or description by others, because of the official 'supersedence' of Marxist-Leninist thought in North Korea by the ideology of Juche . A few anti-revisionists still positively regard the teachings of Enver Hoxha and/or Kim Il-Sung , but this is rare. CRITICISMS Critics point out that anti-revisionists, like the communist leaders that preceded them, have an inclination towards the Cult Of Personality , and that an indispensable principle of the Scientific Method is actually the desirability of revision. Critics also argue against the elevation of a doctrine to the status of unquestionable truth, which they say anti-revisionists do, and that therefore, while anti-revisionism may be ideologically pure, it would be far from scientific. Some critics of anti-revisionism call it a Dogma and would even liken it to treating Marxist political theory as a type of religious faith. Anti-revisionists counter that these criticisms amount to mischaracterization and Slander ; that there is a difference between development of a Party Line to arrive at different conclusions, and the attempt of Revisionism to, in their view, revise Marxist fundamentals; and that critics' characterization of anti-revisionists, even taken alone, does not correspond to what anti-revisionists do in practice from day to day. ANTI-REVISIONIST LEADERS Those at a State level claiming an anti-revisionist orientation actually vary very widely in their ideological perspectives from within Communism . An amalgamated list of the more famous self-proclaimed Anti-Revisionist leaders:
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