- Capitalist roader
In
Maoist thought, a capitalist roader (走资派, or 走资本主义路线派) is a person or group on the political left who demonstrates a marked tendency to bow to pressure from Bourgeois forces and subsequently attempts to pull the Revolution in a capitalist direction. If allowed to do so, these forces would eventually restore the political and economic rule of capitalism; in other words, these forces would lead a society down a "capitalist road". The term first appeared inChinese Communist Party literature in 1965, but the idea was initially developed byMao Zedong in 1956-1957, against what he saw as reactionary tendencies in the party. [Chan, S., "The image of a "Capitalist Roader": Some dissident short stories in the hundred flowers period", 1979, Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, no.2 - http://www.jstor.org/view/01567365/di980631/98p0024i/0]Capitalist roaders are described as representatives of the capitalist class within the Communist Party and those who attempt to restore capitalism while pretending to uphold
socialism . Mao contended thatDeng Xiaoping was a capitalist roader and that theSoviet Union fell to capitalist roaders from within the Communist Party after the death ofJoseph Stalin .References
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