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capitalist roader

Syllables: cap·i·tal·ist road·er/ˌkæpɪt(ə)lɪst ˈɹəʊdə/US/ˌkæpətl̩əst ˈɹoʊdɚ/

capitalist roader noun: one (especially a Chinese Communist Party official) who bows to pressure from bourgeois forces and attempts to pull the Cultural Revolution in a capitalist direction.

Noun

capitalist roader (plural capitalist roaders)

  1. (China, derogatory, historical) One (especially a Chinese Communist Party official) who bows to pressure from bourgeois forces and attempts to pull the Cultural Revolution in a capitalist direction.
    • Hsiangfen County CCP Committee has launched the cadres and masses to study Chairman Mao's teachings and criticize the revisionist program of "taking the three instructions as the key link" pushed by the unrepentant capitalist roaders in the party.1976 February 26 [1976 February 25], “Shansi County Criticism Aids Tachai Emulation”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 39, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced...
    • Flagrantly they spread the notion that "at present the targets of revolution are those democrats who had eaten bran in the old society, been wounded during the Anti-Japanese War, fought in the Liberation War and crossed the Ya-lu River during the struggle to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea."...1977 November 30 [1977 October 8], Liu Tsai-fu [0491 0375 5958] [刘再複], Yang Chih-chieh [2799 1807 2638] [杨志杰], “The Ins and Outs of the Conspirational Literature and Art of the 'Gang of Four'”, in...

Forms of capitalist roader

pluralcapitalist roaders

Origin of capitalist roader

From capitalist + road (figurative) + -er (suffix denoting a person associated with or supporting a particular doctrine, theory, or political movement), as a calque of Chinese 走資派 /走资派 (zǒuzīpài, literally “one who takes the capitalist road”), a contraction of 走資本主義道路(的)當權派 /走资本主义道路(的)当权派 (zǒu zīběnzhǔyì dàolù (de) dāngquánpài, “those in power who take the capitalist road”), first used in Chinese Communist Party literature in 1965.

Words formed from capitalist roader

Questions about capitalist roader

What does capitalist roader mean?
Capitalist roader means one (especially a Chinese Communist Party official) who bows to pressure from bourgeois forces and attempts to pull the Cultural Revolution in a capitalist direction.
What part of speech is capitalist roader?
Capitalist roader is a noun.
How do you pronounce capitalist roader?
Capitalist roader is pronounced /ˌkæpɪt(ə)lɪst ˈɹəʊdə/ (UK).
What is the plural of capitalist roader?
The plural of capitalist roader is capitalist roaders.

Words near capitalist roader in the dictionary

  1. capitalist
  2. capitalist anarchism
  3. capitalist anarchist
  4. capitalist anarchists
  5. capitalist realism
  6. capitalist roader
  7. capitalist roaders
  8. capitalist roadism
  9. capitalist roadist
  10. capitalistic
  11. capitalistical

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