capitalist roader

Definitions

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.

China, derogatory, historical

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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

CEFR level