Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
REVISIONISM
revisionism
(noun) a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism
revisionism
(noun) any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
revisionism (countable and uncountable, plural revisionisms)
(historiography) The advocacy of a revision of some accepted theory, doctrine or a view of historical events.
(Marxism, derogatory) An evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its original principles.
Source: Wiktionary
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