The essentially Maoist concept of capitalist roader (走资派）denotes persons or groups on the political left who demonstrate a marked tendency to bow to pressure from bourgeois forces and subsequently attempt to pull the Revolution in a capitalist direction, and eventually restore the political and economic rule of capitalism--hence the "capitalist road". Capitalist roaders are described as represenatives of the capitalist class within the Communist Party and who attempt to restore capitalism while pretending to uphold socialism. Mao contended that Deng Xiaoping was such a capitalist roader, and that the Soviet Union also fell to capitalist roaders from within the Communist Party after the death of Joseph Stalin. Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought (Chinese: 毛澤東思想, pinyin: Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng), also called Marxism-Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM), is a variant of communism derived from the teachings of Mao Zedong (1893&#8211... Leftism redirects here. ... Bourgeoisie (RP [], GA []) is a classification used in analyzing human societies to describe a class of people who are in the middle class nobility, whose status or power comes from employment, education, and wealth as opposed to aristocratic origin. ... The storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789 during the French Revolution. ... In economics, a capitalist is someone who owns capital, presumably within the economic system of capitalism. ... In modern usage, the term communist party is generally used to identify any political party which has adopted communist ideology. ... Deng Xiaoping   (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Teng Hsiao-ping; August 22, 1904–February 19, 1997) was a leader in the Communist Party of China (CCP). ...

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