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capitalist roader en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌkæpətl̩əst ˈɹoʊdɚ/ (General-American)
• [-ɾl̩əst-] (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌkæpɪt(ə)lɪst ˈɹəʊdə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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.

Meanings

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 from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page K 2:
   • 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." Those who had to be knocked out now were "capitalist roaders who had climbed the snowcapped mountains and crossed the grasslands." 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 Translations on People's Republic of China, number 405, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Peking KUANG-MING JIH-PAO 8 Oct 1977 p2, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Political and Sociological, page 9:

Forms

Deriveds

capitalist roadist · capitalist roadism

Translations (16)

nb kapitalistfarer (Translations) · ko 주자파 (Translations) · fi kapitalistisen tien kulkija (Translations) · ru ка̀ппути́ст (Translations) · sv kapitalistfarare (Translations) · es compañero de ruta capitalista (Translations) · es compañera de ruta capitalista (Translations) · cmn 走資派 /走资派 (Translations) · ja 走資派 (Translations) · es seguidora de la vía capitalista (Translations) · nan-hbl 走資派 /走资派 (Translations) · tr kapitalist yolcu (Translations) · hu kapitalista utas (Translations) · yue 走資派 /走资派 (Translations) · ru ка̀ппути́стка (Translations) · es seguidor de la vía capitalista (Translations)

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