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n. - An ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism).

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  • The Islamist party's Selangor leader Datuk Hassan Ali has been at the forefront in policing what he called deviationist movements like the Ahmadiyah and stopping the...
  • Right now, it’s pretty much just me and DTM, but I’m starting to think he’s a right-deviationist from the true path of joeism.
  • Malaysian Muslims risk being branded "deviationist" and suffer the worldly consequences should they by chance stray from the official line or dare express independent...
  • CPUSA elements from SDS leadership and declared the refurbished SDS leadership would be responsible for the correct Marxist-Leninist line and would exclude non-Maoist,...
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