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The term "pseudo-socialists" refers to petty-bourgeois elements in the Philippines who style themselves as "socialists" and call for a "socialist revolution," in an attempt to lead the workers away from the path of the people's democratic revolution. They fail to recognize the prevailing semicolonial and semifeudal conditions in the Philippines which necessitate waging a new democratic revolution as preparation for the socialist revolution.They dissuade workers from forging a class alliance with the peasant masses, through building and leading the revolutionary armed struggle or revolutionary peasant war.

"Gender radicalism," on the other hand, is the term chosen to describe some petty-bourgeois elements who tend to reduce all issues to the question of gender, and raise the gender question and issues as all-encompassing. They relegate the matter of class struggle to the background or as a secondary issues. Some "radicals" dismiss the fact that the Party militantly stands against all forms of gender oppression and patriarchy, as explicity stated in the Party's Program for a People's Democratic Revolution, as approved in the 2016 Congress. They obscure the fact that the Party has been a stalwart and vocal proponent of equal rights for women and the LGBT community, consistently translating this commitment into policy and practice across all its work and that of the national democratic movement. They misconstrue instances of Party policy infringements, the process of enforcing disciplinary measures to correct these violations, combined with the remoulding of individuals as "enabling" or condoning sexual abuse, and then use this misleading narrative as a platform to impugn the Party and the national democratic movement.

The term "NGOism" has long been sufficiently explained in the documents of the 2nd rectification movement. Aspects of "legalism" were presented in the CPP's statement during its 55th anniversary.