capitalist roader

plural capitalist roaders

1. ChinaderogatoryhistoricalOne (especially a Chinese Communist Party official) who bows to pressure from bourgeois forces and attempts to pull the Cultural Revolution in a capitalist direction.First known use 1960s

   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

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   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."

   杨志杰

   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