deviationist

deviation +‎ -ist

deviationist (plural deviationists)

1. One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism.
   • 2007 June 13, William Grimes, “Surviving Under Mao: A Slacker’s Guide”, in New York Times‎:

     Theirs was the confession, and Mr. Kang turned them out by the dozen throughout his life, expiating one supposed crime after another by denouncing himself as a reactionary element, a deviationist and whatever else was on the political menu that day.

   • 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 121:

     For the Italian journalist Enzo Biagi, he recalled the ride in the "black crow," the prison truck in which he was accompanied by other "deviationists . . . terrorists, Trotskyites, ex-Social Democrats."

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