Paul Baron (1957) uses the term comprador bourgeoisie which originates from the dependency theory. From Wordnik.com. [News]
However much the CPIM may try to restrict the meaning of the word comprador to the original Comintern usage, the whole world knows that the word has evolved since then. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Contemporary Currents among Indian Communists] Reference
Laurence speculates that it might be "comprador capitalists" or. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
DV also has enough information about Bania comprador behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Dalit Voice - Naxalism gets complicated with RSS & big business infiltration] Reference
In other words, they were intrinsically comprador and parasitic. From Wordnik.com. [CONTENTS] Reference
(This post was edited by Rolly on Apr 11, 2008, 8: 48 PM) comprador. From Wordnik.com. [Cancel Medicare while in Mexico??] Reference
"You wantee me, comprador?" said the man, speaking in that species of. From Wordnik.com. [The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace] Reference
Saudi Arabia is no less complicit, if a bit less visible a comprador. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: A Turkish Renovatio ?] Reference
In this regard, the formulation 'comprador and parasitic', as understood by. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
It now runs second to the comprador big bourgeoisie as the exploiting class. From Wordnik.com. [Crisis of the Semifeudal Economy - Lectures on Phillippine Crisis and Revolution] Reference
Otherwise, we've been paying all our medical expense out of pocket. comprador. From Wordnik.com. [Cancel Medicare while in Mexico??] Reference
The comprador big bourgeoisie is the dominant class in the relations of production. From Wordnik.com. [Crisis of the Semifeudal Economy - Lectures on Phillippine Crisis and Revolution] Reference
They dreamt to thrown away yokes of feudal, comprador bureaucratic capitalists and imperialism. From Wordnik.com. [Observe Martyrs Week, July 28 - August 3 - CPI(Maoist)Karnataka State Committee] Reference
Madisha also disputed the view that he was "a comprador who is too close to the ANC in cabinet". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
All these are for protecting imperialist and comprador interests rather than people of the land. From Wordnik.com. [CPI(Maoist)Karnataka State Committee press release on burning of bus] Reference
The landlord class is far more widespread than the comprador big bourgeoisie based in the cities. From Wordnik.com. [Crisis of the Semifeudal Economy - Lectures on Phillippine Crisis and Revolution] Reference
The urban based comprador big bourgeoisie is in close partnership with the rural based landlord class. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to Philippine Economy and Politics - Jose Maria Sison CPP] Reference
A few years ago I may have been rejected because of my comprador/burgeois class origins, but not today. From Wordnik.com. [Juntas vs. Open Societies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Hence, apart from some artificial measures in the bantustans, no comprador class was in existence in 1994. From Wordnik.com. [CONTENTS] Reference
Instead the profits have either gone to the Western oil companies, or to the small Nigerian comprador elite. From Wordnik.com. [Contents] Reference
But this will eventually fall into the hands of another faction of the same big comprador and landlord class. From Wordnik.com. [Crisis of the Semifeudal Economy - Lectures on Phillippine Crisis and Revolution] Reference
In this area comprador bureaucratic capitalists like tatas, ABC, tea companies were also having larger presence. From Wordnik.com. [CPI(Maoist)Karnataka State Committee on Anti-people band organised by Landlords] Reference
Now they are threatened by evictions for various imperialist and comprador sponsored forest, water, power etc projects. From Wordnik.com. [CPI(Maoist)Karnataka State Committee on Anti-people band organised by Landlords] Reference
My understanding is that to reinstate Medicare Part B you have to pay all the missed payments plus a 10% penalty. comprador. From Wordnik.com. [Cancel Medicare while in Mexico??] Reference
Philippine cities are basically centers of operations of the comprador big bourgeoisie and not of an industrial bourgeoisie. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to Philippine Economy and Politics - Jose Maria Sison CPP] Reference
Naturally that becomes peace less and violent for exploiting landlords and their agents, sangh parivaar and comprador state. From Wordnik.com. [CPI(Maoist)Karnataka State Committee on Anti-people band organised by Landlords] Reference
Buddhadeb had emerged as Bengal's Dyer and has proved himself to be a loyal servant of the big comprador houses and the MNCs. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Ganapathy, General Secretary, CPI(Maoist)] Reference
Israel got an agreement to establish a new Palestinian Authority (PA) to act as its comprador enforcer to control a restive people. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe] Reference
In the main, these regular wage earners are employed by the government and by the multinational, big comprador and middle bourgeois firms. From Wordnik.com. [Crisis of the Semifeudal Economy - Lectures on Phillippine Crisis and Revolution] Reference
This "opening" was a chance for opportunists to stomp on the struggle of the masses while they asked for favors from the comprador bourgeoisie. From Wordnik.com. [Upsurge and massacre in Mexico 1968: part 2 blood at Tlatelolco] Reference
The socioeconomic relations are dominated by the comprador big bourgeoisie and the landlord class in the service of foreign monopoly capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to Philippine Economy and Politics - Jose Maria Sison CPP] Reference
Industry, trade and agriculture continue to be controlled and manipulated by comprador and monopoly capitalists, feudal lords and tribal sardars. From Wordnik.com. [New Merger of Left Parties in Pakistan, Big Step Forward - Daily Morning Star LONDON] Reference
Leys (1975) sums up the paper correctly when he says its historic function was "to formulate a 'developmental' ideology adapted to 'comprador' interests". From Wordnik.com. [CONTENTS] Reference
In this regard, the formulation 'comprador and parasitic', as understood by Marxists, and not used merely as a swear-word, has a specific historical meaning. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The British solution, which worked pretty well, was to develop a dispensable bilingual local subaltern or comprador class identified with the imperial power. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » A Failure to Communicate] Reference
McQuaig compares her country's government, business and military elite to the 19th century notion of a "comprador class" serving foreign business class interests. From Wordnik.com. [Reviewing Linda McQuaig's Holding the Bully's Coat] Reference
These are largely comprador elites - elites that facilitate the activities of multinationals in their country, relying on bribes and kick-backs from these corporations. From Wordnik.com. [Contents] Reference
The comprador elites only cared about exports and an upper middle class mired in conspicuous consumption - the auto industry was the axis of the Brazilian economy at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?] Reference
That should be clear, especially in Iraq most graphically, even after the recent “elections†staged in order to try to legitimize a U.S. puppet (comprador) regime. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer] Reference
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