Some revisionists say that the Risorgimento was a work of colonization, followed by a centralizing policy of conquest, because of which the Italian Mezzogiorno would fall into a state of backwardness still manifest.

Lenin especially defends Marx ’ s theory of Communism, and Marxism generally ; to wit, when old revolutionaries die, the bourgeoisie are not content with labelling them “ enemies of the state ”, because that would attract political radicals, so they attack the revolutionaries ’ theoretic writings by ascribing to them an ( anti-revolutionary ) social-democratic mediocrity contrary to “ the revolutionary nature of Marx ”; such bourgeois intellectuals are the “ revisionists ” who transform a man into an abstraction:

On the other side were the reformists, or revisionists, who argued that capitalism had reached a stage in which it was no longer necessary to call for revolution, but that enough reforms could be put into place -- more democratic rights, more social welfare programs -- that socialism would evolve over time.

In his skit on Freud's remark that ' if my name were Oberhuber, my innovations would have found far less resistance ', Peter Gay, considering the notional eclipse of " Oberhuber " by his replacement Freud, adjudged that ' the prospect that deviants would have to be called neo-Oberhuberians, or Oberhuberian revisionists, contributed to the master's decline '.

Following the traditional use in the Second International, opponents would be labeled as " revisionists ".

Pro-democracy lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan said the DAB were revisionists who " would rather people not talk about their inglorious past.

There were a number of vocal Puritans in the House of Commons ( although the extent to which they influenced the Commons is disputed, Sir John Neale identified a unified bloc of 43 MPs, whereas revisionists have suggested that this is an exaggeration ) who they began asking for more rights for the Puritans, but Elizabeth I was strong enough not to ignore their demands.

The issue has been further complicated by historical revisionists, who have tried to improve the image of the South by lessening the role of slavery.

* Secret history, historical events claimed by revisionists to have been deliberately suppressed or forgotten

These scholars are labeled " revisionists " by their opponents.

Mao wrote that despite having undergone a Communist revolution, China's political hierarchy was still dominated by " bourgeois " elitist elements, capitalists, and revisionists, and that these counter-revolutionary elements were indeed still present at the top ranks of the party leadership itself.

The 1982 work by Thomas L. Connolly and Barbara L. Bellows, God and General Longstreet, provided a " further upgrading of Longstreet through an attack on Lee, the Lost Cause, and the Virginia revisionists.

The event remains a contentious political issue, as various aspects of it have been disputed by some historical revisionists and Japanese nationalists, who have claimed that the massacre has been either exaggerated or wholly fabricated for propaganda purposes.

There are many topics developed by revisionists.

The Last Supper has also been the target of much speculation by writers and historical revisionists alike, usually centered around supposed purported hidden messages or hints found within the painting.

The accuracy of the received history has been questioned by historical revisionists such as Anthony A. Barrett.

The implications of a radical down-dating of the conventional Egyptian chronology, such as that proposed by Rohl and other revisionists, are complex and wide-ranging.

Edited by Morris, this collection of articles was written by " traditionalists and revisionists who openly and directly lay out their key insights about Israel's origins ".

This styling of an Aryan invasion by British colonial fantasies of racial supremacy was incorporated by Communist revisionists as part of waging a Trotskyist permanent revolution in India between perceived " whites " and " darks ", and has no basis in genetic or anthropological studies of South Asian populations.

The disintegration of USSR brought the Left into disunion, and the traditional majority within KKE purged all non-hardliners from the party-almost 45 % of the Central Committee members, including ex-general secretary Grigoris Farakos, and majorities in many Local Committees ( named by the KKE majority as revisionists and by the press as the renewers ), and also split from the coalition.

The Nizkor web site has been accused by self-proclaimed " Holocaust revisionists " and neo-Nazi Web sites as being funded by Israel and other Zionist sources, though McVay consistently denies these charges.

Rosa Luxemburg and Henryk Grossman both rendered inestimable theoretical services by insisting, as against the revisionists, on the breakdown theory .”

Although repeatedly being approached by third parties to debate the book Dershowitz refused on the ground that he had a " longstanding policy against debating Holocaust deniers, revisionists, trivializers or minimizers "

He is particularly associated with an action on 2 April 1755 when, commanding the Bombay Marine Ship Protector he attacked and destroyed the fortress of Tulaji Angre ( also spelt Tollagee Angria ; son of Kanhoji Angre, described by English revisionists as a " pirate ", by local revisionists as the " admiral " of the Maratha Empire navy ) at Severndroog ( an English representation of the latter part of Janjeera Soowumdroog or Suvarnadurg ), in Konkan, along the western coast of India, between Mumbai and Goa.

: Those representatives of the bourgeoisie who have sneaked into the Party, the government, the army, and various spheres of culture are a bunch of counter-revolutionary revisionists.

Historical revisionists …“ seem to have been given a collective task in nation's cultural development, the full significance of which is emerging only now: to redefine nation ’ s status in a changing world .” History is a tool that contributes to the shaping of national identity, cultures, and memories.

Many Holocaust deniers reject " denier " as an accurate description of their point of view, preferring, instead, the term " Holocaust revisionist "; nonetheless, scholars prefer " Holocaust denier " to differentiate deniers from legitimate historical revisionists, whose goal is to accurately analyze historical evidence with established methods.

Whig historians such as Samuel Rawson Gardiner described it as the founding of the United Kingdom's modern constitutional monarchy, and although revisionists have " virtually abolished " Gardiner's works, the Petition of Right is still considered an important moment, with Conrad Russell arguing that it was the " culmination of a national war crisis an ideological watershed ".

Lynn Hunt, though often characterized as a feminist interpreter of the Revolution, is a historian working in the wake of the revisionists.

Yet the some revisionists continue to try and often use the path of obscure mathematics is used to throw students into a state of doubt.

Suvorov is often accused ( or praised by historical revisionists ) of shifting the blame of World War II on Stalin and thus removing the blame from Hitler ; however, the actual content of the book contains no praise of Hitler or justification of his terror.

According to John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, writing in their book, In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage, the historiography of Soviet and Communist studies is characterized by a split between " traditionalists " and " revisionists ".

The humanities division of University of Lyon 3, is notorious for the profusion of FN supporters and revisionists among its faculty — most notably, Robert Faurisson.

Bernstein's work on Lochner is notable because unlike most other Lochner revisionists, he argues that the Supreme Court's liberty of contract jurisprudence was primarily rights-based, rather than resulting from concerns over " class legislation ".

However, more recently revisionists refer to the 11 years a period of " Creative Reform ", due to the measures taken by Charles to restructure English politics at the time.

Mitre, for example, referred to The Representation of the Landowners ( an 1809 economic report by Mariano Moreno ) and the role of the merchants to support the view that the May Revolution intended to obtain free trade and economic integration with Europe ; right-wing revisionists center around Saavedra and the social customs of the time to describe the revolution under conservative principles ; and left-wing revisionists use the example of Moreno, Castelli and the rioters led by French and Beruti to describe it as a radical revolution.

" As part of his attack on Habermas and his supporters, Hildebrand assailed the functionalist interpretations of the Holocaust advanced by Hans Mommsen and Martin Broszat as little better than Holocaust denial, and commented sarcastically that in the Historikerstreit that the “ revisionists ” Mommsen and Broszat were supporting Habermas in his attacks on the “ revisionists ” Nolte and Hillgruber Hildebrand wrote as part of his attack on the “ singularity ” of the Holocaust that:

The San Francisco Vigilance Movement, for example, has traditionally been portrayed as a positive response to government corruption and rampant crime, though revisionists have argued that it created more lawlessness than it eliminated.

Radek accused the local party leadership in Württemberg of assisting the revisionists to strangle the newspaper due to the papers hostility to them.

Instead of submitting their work to the challenges of a peer review, revisionists rewrite history to support an agenda, and often use logical fallacies to obtain the desired results.

British historian Richard J. Evans describes the difference in technique between historians and revisionists thus:

As in any academic discipline, historians submit their papers for peer review, however, instead of submitting their work to the challenges of a peer review, revisionists rewrite history to support an agenda, often political, and use many techniques and logical fallacies to obtain the desired results.

In doing so, the revisionists therefore engages in deceiving their audience into believing manipulated information.

The result was a half-century of often embittered controversy between traditionalists and revisionists that lasted until 1960.

He insisted that these " revisionists " be removed through violent class struggle.

Those identified as spies, “ running dogs ”, “ revisionists ”, or coming from a suspect class ( including those related to former landlords or rich peasants ) were subject to beating, imprisonment, rape, torture, sustained and systematic harassment and abuse, seizure of property, denial of medical attention, and erasure of social identity.

Some historical revisionists even deny that a widespread, systematic massacre occurred at all, claiming that any deaths were either justified militarily, accidental or isolated incidents of unauthorized atrocities.

These revisionists claim that the characterization of the incident as a large-scale, systematic massacre was fabricated for the purpose of political propaganda.

In the 19th century, romantic revisionists in the West transformed the " barbarian " Scyths of literature into the wild and free, hardy and democratic ancestors of all blond Indo-Europeans.

During this period, Mao Zedong galvanized students and young workers as his Red Guards to attack what he termed as revisionists in the party.