I was reading Carrillo’s “Eurocommunism and the State” for an article and he did that thing a lot of revisionist do where they go “well everything is revisionism!!! Lenin was a revisionist!!! Marx was a revisionist of himself!!!” Etc. Etc.
But really they are, honestly probably purposefully, obfuscating what revisionism is. For example, he uses the change from war communism to the NEP to post-nep policies as an example of lenin being a revisionist of himself, which…no? That’s not what revisionism is. That’s just applying different policies to material conditions. I mean it gets a little more complicated obviously but I honestly do very much hate it.
Revisionism is a vague term but describes those who continue to be communist while trying to revision the movement such as Nikita Khrushchev did during the de-Stalinization when he liberalized the economy. This is different than reformism which wishes to reform communism make it “democratic” under democratic socialism or social democracy.
It has been used against Deng Xiaoping’s liberalization of China as Dengism continues today, it is important to note this accusation attacks AES and also it is believed that Dengism is being used to have controlled capitalism under a socialist government, so that China can properly transition from feudalism to capitalism to socialism like Karl Marx intended.