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revisionism

ree vi zhuh ni zuhm

  • n  any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx
  • n  a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism

  • Whether it's "tobacco revisionism," as critics contend, or political correctness la franaise, things have just gotten tougher for smokers in France including those who've .
  • Monsignor Noel Treanor, who represents the bishops' lobby in Brussels, says Giscard's revisionism should be revised once more "out of a sense of historical exactitude.
  • Such people commit revisionism if others commit revisionism, and if others commit dogmatism, they also commit dogmatism.
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  • Don’t get hysterical
    First-time writer-director Alice Winocour obviously sees room for feminist revisionism in Augustine , a fact-based period drama that pits a 19th-century French neurologist (Vincent London), skilled in the art of hypnosis, against his star patient, a 19-year-old servant girl (Soko) sentenced to life in an asylum after a dinner-disrupting seizure leaves her partly paralyzed.
    June 26, 2013 - San Diego Reader
Quotes

  • Bud Selig in ESPN
    If I sound frustrated it's because you get into revisionism 15-20 years later and it's the wrong set of facts you're revising,Selig said. "My frustration is we started [minor league testing] in 1998. Where were we sleeping?"
  • Jacques Barrot in Deutsche Welle
    I want to point out that in most (EU) states, Holocaust-denial can lead to legal action. National justice systems have jurisdiction to deal with historical revisionism,Barrot said.
  • David Duke in International Herald Tribune
    Duke, a former Louisiana state representative, praised Ahmadinejad for his "courage" in holding a conference "to offer free speech for the worlds most repressed idea: Holocaust revisionism."

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