Word.ws English Dictionary

capitalist roadism

capitalist roadism noun: the alleged political beliefs of a capitalist roader: 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 roadism (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, historical) The alleged political beliefs of a capitalist roader: 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.

Origin of capitalist roadism

By analogy with capitalist roader, a calque of Chinese 走資派 /走资派 (zǒuzīpài, literally “one who takes the capitalist road”). By surface analysis, capitalist + road (figurative) + -ism (suffix denoting a particular doctrine, theory, or political movement).

Words formed from capitalist roadism

Questions about capitalist roadism

What does capitalist roadism mean?
Capitalist roadism means the alleged political beliefs of a capitalist roader: 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 roadism?
Capitalist roadism is a noun.

Words near capitalist roadism in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: capitalist roadism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “capitalist roadism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/capitalist_roadism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.