Deviationist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.

    "The Hsicheng District CCP Committee in Peking Municipality has fully mobilized the masses and led all middle schools in the district to conduct mass debates on the revolution in education, dealing fierce counterblows to the absurd arguments aimed at stirring up the right deviationist wind to reverse previous verdicts in education."

  2. 2
    an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) wordnet

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heretic

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"The Hsicheng District CCP Committee in Peking Municipality has fully mobilized the masses and led all middle schools in the district to conduct mass debates on the revolution in education, dealing fierce counterblows to the absurd arguments aimed at stirring up the right deviationist wind to reverse previous verdicts in education."

Etymology

From deviation + -ist.

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