capitalist roader
/ˌkæpətl̩əst ˈɹoʊdɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "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.""
Etymology
From capitalist + road (figurative) + -er (suffix denoting a person associated with or supporting a particular doctrine, theory, or political movement), as a calque of Chinese 走資派 /走资派 (zǒuzīpài, literally “one who takes the capitalist road”), a contraction of 走資本主義道路(的)當權派 /走资本主义道路(的)当权派 (zǒu zīběnzhǔyì dàolù (de) dāngquánpài, “those in power who take the capitalist road”), first used in Chinese Communist Party literature in 1965.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkæpətl̩əst ˈɹoʊdɚ/
- British English: /ˌkæpɪt(ə)lɪst ˈɹəʊdə/