black gangster

plural black gangsters

1. derogatoryhistoricalgovernmentA propaganda term used by Mao Zedong against opponents.

   The radicals held that Liu's men were 'black gangsters' in league with the ousted Party committees.

   2016, Philip Short, Mao: The Man Who Made China, page 534

   2 more examples

   […] and branded more than one-third of the people in the Agriculture Ministry as "rightists" or "black gangsters."

   1968, Survey of China Mainland Press: Supplement, page 14

   It was not always clear who was a counterrevolutionary or a black gangster for that matter. Former landlords, capitalists, and rich peasants were more readily spotted, but even here there was some difficulty […]

   1970, Jan S. Prybyla, The Political Economy of Communist China, page 539

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, gangster. (i.e. one with black skin)