"In the Marxist-Leninist movement, an anti-revisionist is one who favors the line of theory and practice associated with Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin, usually stated in this way so as to show direct opposition to the Marx-Engels-Lenin-Trotsky path of Trotskyism. Anti-revisionists claim that the Soviet Union under Stalin's leadership represented a correct and successful practical implementation of the ideas of the scientific socialist ideas of Marx, Engels and Lenin in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Anti-revisionism (known to its detractors as "Stalinism") 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. Anti-revisionism is based on the view that the Soviet Union successfully implemented Marxism-Leninism during approximately the first thirty years of its existence — from the time of the October Revolution until the Secret Speech and peaceful coexistence of 1956. Anti-revisionists point out that Stalin's policies not only achieved impressive rates of economic growth and argue that such growth could have been sustained and a prosperous communism could have been achieved if the Soviet Union had remained on this same course (see also the article Theory of Productive Forces); they also typically further allege that the worldwide ideological impact and leadership of the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s world labor movement represent a superior ideological and social model of real "workers' power" that was first ruined by the Secret Speech and was later to reemerge within Enver Hoxha's Albania and/or China's Cultural Revolution, only to be ruined again by the capture and deposition of the Gang of Four by China's "state capitalists" (or according to others, the denunciation of the Cultural Revolution at the third session of the Eleventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China,by Deng Xiao Ping). According to anti-revisionists, these later attempts to 'fix' or revise the socialist system represented a shift onto the road to capitalism and ultimately led to the downfall of the Soviet Union and the betrayal of communist principles in all self-proclaimed communist countries. Thus, revisionism is seen as the cause of the fall of the Soviet Union and the East European socialist republics." I don't agree with parts of the wording, does anyone have any suggestions on what to put instead?
With what parts exactly don't you agree?
Well a portion of the third paragraph is embracing left communism. And the analysis is not very materialist, it is stating that the secret speech ruined socialism. And it is also embracing Maoism/hoxhaism which not everyone here is adherent to. And the 4th paragraph blames the fall of the soviet union on revisionism but it was more of an overthrow than anything. And while we are against trotskyism, Anti-Revisionists are also against other ideological deviations as well.
I like it, it's well written, but if changes are to be made: Together with the 'Secret Speech' and peaceful coexistance, we should add the economic reforms of 1965-66, which generally were much more decisive in bringing down socialism than the former two. Now I don't think it really goes for Hoxhaism and Maoism, but then, more emphasis on the anti-revisionist nature of these currents? If we are to criticize other ideologies here, then perhaps we should make a list of some of them with some exact reasons?
