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I think it's almost easier to just say you can safely ignore anyone using the phrase "counter-revolution" in the context of statecraft, because it's an inherently subjective, unserious phrase with a heavy and chilling history of oppression. The Bolshevists were counter-revolutionary afterall. Debates over who is the righteous revolutionary and who is the "foreign provacateur" will always be circular, and will alway reduce to suppressing the agency of all opposition, be it real or synthetic. Anarchists are simply not in the business of suppressing agency, be it via linguistic gymnastics or otherwise.
Real social and political change will always be a project. It's not "do the thing and then ... Utopia." As such it inherently needs to be built on a framework which embraces the idea of iterative progress, not one which treats it as suspicious by default.