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noun
The alleged political beliefs of a capitalist roader: 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, historical, uncountable
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History
By analogy with capitalist roader, a calque of Chinese 走資派 /走资派 (zǒuzīpài, literally “one who takes the capitalist road”). By surface analysis, capitalist + road (figurative) + -ism (suffix denoting a particular doctrine, theory, or political movement).
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