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The Fundamentals of Marxism: Dialectics, Historical Materialism, and Class Struggle

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The Importance of Revisionism

The idea of revisionism is liberalism masquerading as Marxism. It's anti-Marxism dressed up in the garb of Marxism, trying to convince you that their liberal ideas are actually ideas that come out of Marxist methodologies and Marxist analysis. Dogmatism often masquerades as materialist analysis. Opportunism within our movements is a form of revisionism. In Maoist China, he talked about the capitalist rotors, right? People within the party trying to put the Chinese people back onto the road of liberalism and capitalism. And we can debate whether that happened or not. But that's the idea of Revisionism.

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