This is the main problem I have with the term “revisionism”… revisionist against who exactly? All of the brilliant thinkers who advanced scientific socialism?
It turns Marxism from an ever-adapting science, trying what works and learning what best benefits the people, into a stagnant church wielding orthodoxy and heresy-branding.
Marxism should be about scientific discovery and human progress, not the inquisition.
people sometimes critique Marxism by talking about it as though it’s a religion. I often disagree with the view, but the way anti-revisionists treat the ideology feels exactly the same as how religious zealots treat Christianity.
If you disagreed with the Catholic church in the 1500s, you were labelled a Protestant and a Heretic. If you disagree with classical Marxism, you’re a “revisionist”.
This was one of the main lessons learned by the CPC after it emerged from the cultural revolution and the reign of the gang of four, who ruled by those same catholic methods… lessons the MLMs and Hoxhaists have to completely ignore given the success of the PRC’s opening up or Vietnams Doi Moi reforms.
Deng inaugurated a period of great scientific creativity and curiosity; people were free to try new things, experiment with marxist solutions to technology growth and poverty alleviation, etc.
This is the main problem I have with the term “revisionism”… revisionist against who exactly? All of the brilliant thinkers who advanced scientific socialism?
It turns Marxism from an ever-adapting science, trying what works and learning what best benefits the people, into a stagnant church wielding orthodoxy and heresy-branding.
Marxism should be about scientific discovery and human progress, not the inquisition.
people sometimes critique Marxism by talking about it as though it’s a religion. I often disagree with the view, but the way anti-revisionists treat the ideology feels exactly the same as how religious zealots treat Christianity.
If you disagreed with the Catholic church in the 1500s, you were labelled a Protestant and a Heretic. If you disagree with classical Marxism, you’re a “revisionist”.
This was one of the main lessons learned by the CPC after it emerged from the cultural revolution and the reign of the gang of four, who ruled by those same catholic methods… lessons the MLMs and Hoxhaists have to completely ignore given the success of the PRC’s opening up or Vietnams Doi Moi reforms.
Deng inaugurated a period of great scientific creativity and curiosity; people were free to try new things, experiment with marxist solutions to technology growth and poverty alleviation, etc.
Some good articles from Deng on this: