Etymology

capitalist roadism

Today it 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. Full definition →

Chinese 走資派 /走资派
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  1. Chinese · derived from走資派 /走资派
  2. English todaycapitalist 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).

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