17-595: Post-independence and Cold War Contemporary history Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in India. After the death of Charu Majumdar in 1972 the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) pro Charu Majumdar central committee was led by Mahadev Mukherjee and Jagjit Singh Sohal , and the Central Committee took a stand to defend
34-522: A call to combat domestic revisionism in China. A 'central anti-revisionist drafting group' was formally constituted, led by Kang Sheng , which drafted anti-revisionist polemics, which were later personally reviewed by Mao before publication. The 'Nine Articles' emerged as the centre-piece of anti-Soviet polemics. Anti-revisionism would emerge as a key theme in Chinese foreign and domestic policies, reaching
51-502: A change are known as revisionists. Eduard Bernstein , a close acquaintance of Marx and Friedrich Engels , was one of the first major revisionists, and was prominent in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In the late 19th century, the term revisionism was used to describe democratic socialist writers, such as Bernstein, who sought to revise Marx's ideas about the transition to socialism and claimed that
68-778: A peak during the 1966 Cultural Revolution . China friendship associations turned into anti-revisionist organizations, and Western Europe anti-revisionist splinter groups began to emerge (such as the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of France [ fr ] , the Grippa group in Belgium [ fr ] , and the Lenin Centre in Switzerland ). In Beijing, the street where the Soviet embassy
85-413: A significant revision of fundamental Marxist theories and premises , and usually involves making an alliance with the bourgeois class . Some academic economists have used revisionism to describe post-Stalinist , Eastern European writers who criticized one-party rule and argued in favour of freedom of the press and of the arts , intra- and sometimes inter-party democracy, independent labor unions ,
102-591: Is a position within Marxism–Leninism which emerged in the mid-1950s in opposition to the reforms of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev . When Khrushchev pursued an interpretation that differed from his predecessor, Joseph Stalin , anti-revisionists within the international communist movement remained dedicated to Stalin's ideological legacy and criticized the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and his successors as state capitalist and social imperialist . During
119-478: Is most often used as an epithet by those Marxists who believe that such revisions are unwarranted and represent a watering down or abandonment of Marxism—one such common example is the negation of class struggle . Revisionism has been used in a number of contexts to refer to different or claimed revisions of Marxist theory . Those who opposed Karl Marx 's revolution through his lens of class struggle and sought out non-revolutionary or more conciliatory means for
136-728: The Sino-Soviet split , the Communist Party of China , led by Mao Zedong ; the Party of Labour of Albania , led by Enver Hoxha ; and some other communist parties and organizations around the world denounced the Khrushchev line as revisionist . Mao Zedong first denounced the Soviet Union as revisionist at a meeting in January 1962. In early 1963, Mao returned to Beijing after a prolonged visit to Wuhan and Hangzhou , and issued
153-413: The 'Nine Articles' had been wrong in focusing on the revisionism of the Soviet Union, rather than the threats of Soviet hegemonism and expansionism . Revisionism (Marxism) In Marxist philosophy , revisionism , otherwise known as Marxist reformism , represents various ideas, principles, and theories that are based on a reform or revision of Marxism . According to their critics, this involves
170-632: The 2nd Congress of the CPI (M-L) in December 1973 in Kamalpur, Burdwan district of West Bengal and soon Kamalpur became a centre of armed guerrilla activity. The armed clashes between government and CPI (M-L) supporter guerrillas in Kamalpur led to a division in the Central Committee with one section attempting to purge Mahadev and his supporters in Deganga session of the Central Committee. The division led to
187-535: The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, West Bengal, New Delhi and Tamil Nadu. The party calls for boycott of parliamentary polls, and urges for armed struggle. The party does not carry out open works and is an underground party. It holds rallies and mass meetings in Naxalbari and Siliguri region of West Bengal only. The party organized a mass rally at Naxalbari on 25 May 2006 in the presence of Mahadev Mukherjee. In Siliguri,
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#1732780516016204-462: The abolition of bureaucratic privileges, and the subordination of police forces to the judiciary power. In Marxist discourse, revisionism often carries pejorative connotations and the term has been used by many different factions. It is typically applied to others and rarely as a self-description. By extension, Marxists who view themselves as fighting against revisionism have often self-identified as Marxist–Leninist anti-revisionists . Revisionism
221-634: The arrest of Mahadev Mukherjee from Shillong. Later in late 70's the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Second Central Committee was formed by Azizul Haque and Nishit Bhattacharya after a split from the Mahadev Mukherjee led Central Committee. Still today the CPI (M-L) Mahadev Mukherjee holds the sectarian political line of Charu Majumdar and Lin Biao . The CPI (M-L) Mahadev Mukherjee has organizational presence in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh,
238-421: The line of Charu Majumdar on 5–6 December 1972. The pro Charu Majumdar CPI (M-L) soon faced a split on the question of Lin Biao and the tenth congress of the Communist Party of China , the faction led by Jauhar, Vinod Mishra and Swadesh Bhattacharya parted way from the party by opposing the line of the Central Committee and founded the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation in 1973 which became
255-564: The party launches a one-day general strike every year in July, to commemorate the killing of Charu Majumdar. On 28 July 2009 the CPI (M-L) Mahadev Mukherjee supporters lynched innocent DYFI leader in North Bengal while enforcing such annual strike As per the statements in the party website after the death of Mahadev Mukherjee in 2009 the party is led by a peasant leader Manik. Anti-revisionism Anti-revisionism (Marxism-Leninism)
272-490: The pro Charu Majumdar and anti Lin Biao faction. The pro Charu Majumdar and pro Lin Biao faction of the CPI (M-L) was led by Mahadev Mukherjee and this faction organized massive armed assaults on government and rich peasantry in West Bengal, However, their attempt of reviving the revolutionary terrorist line of Charu Majumdar did not last long due to police repression. The pro Lin Biao faction led by Mahadev Mukherjee held
289-516: Was located was symbolically renamed as 'Anti-Revisionism Street'. In the wake of the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India , the Communist Party of India (Marxist) would reject Soviet positions as revisionist, but the party did not fully adopt a pro-Chinese line. During Deng Xiaoping 's reign in the late 1970s, anti-revisionist themes began to be downplayed in official Chinese discourse. The Chinese Academy of Sciences stated that
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