List of revisionist tendencies

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The following is an incomplete list of revisionist tendencies and a brief summary of their deviations from Marxism (today Marxist–Leninism–Maoism).

List of revisionist tendencies
Name Date of foundation Founder(s) Revision(s)
Kautskyism 1910s Karl Kautsky Denial of imperialism, reformism[1]
Bersteinism 1900s Eduard Bernstein Rejection of revolution, reformism
Council communism[a] 1910–1920s Anton Pannekoek et al. Denial of the dictatorship of the proletariat and vanguard party[2]
Trotskyism 1920s Leon Trotsky Denial of socialism in one country, democratic centralism, distortions of permanent revolution[3]

References

  1. Vladimir Lenin (1918). The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky.
  2. Vladimir Lenin (1920). "Left-Wing" Communism: an Infantile Disorder.
  3. Joseph Stalin (1924). Trotskyism or Leninism?.

Notes

  1. Also known as the Dutch-German "left."