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- noun   
Deviation from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form ofCommunism . 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism)
 
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Examples
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Peter Brimelow and reader Ryan Kennedy discussed Peggy Noonan’s deviationism from the WSJ position, the last time she wrote a column like this.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Peggy Noonan: “Open-Borders Proponents Are, Simply, Wrong” 2006
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Peter Brimelow and reader Ryan Kennedy discussed Peggy Noonan’s deviationism from the WSJ position, the last time she wrote a column like this.
Earthquake Wipeout 2006
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Peter Brimelow and reader Ryan Kennedy discussed Peggy Noonan’s deviationism from the WSJ position, the last time she wrote a column like this.
Peggy Noonan: “Open-Borders Proponents Are, Simply, Wrong” 2006
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It seems that Volkskammer Energy Chair Henry Waxman will be investigating various capitalist entities for right-deviationism, sabotage, creeping defeatism, and of course general counter-revolutionary behavior*:
In an ideal world, this post would start a duel. | RedState 2010
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He embraced Bolshevism until he was expelled from the Communist Party in 1928 for "left deviationism."
The Revolutionary Novelist Tess Lewis 2011
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As several commenters downblog have so astutely noted, my deviationism on the crucial issue of our times – WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN HONDURAS?
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As several commenters downblog have so astutely noted, my deviationism on the crucial issue of our times – WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN HONDURAS?
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As several commenters downblog have so astutely noted, my deviationism on the crucial issue of our times – WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN HONDURAS?
Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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Pauker was purged from her Party and government posts for “right-wing deviationism” in May 1952 and arrested on February 18, 1953.
Ana Pauker. 2009
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Insiders may anathematize deviationism, but ordinary readers know better.
“Un-American” 2009
 
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