English Explanatory Dictionary

capitalist roadism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

capitalist roadism

Etymology

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).

Related words

capitalist roader

Derived words

capitalist roadist
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