Bureaucrat-Capitalist Class (the Big Bourgeoisie)

It usually refers to the comprador, feudal monopoly bourgeoisie in the colonial and semi-colonial countries which is combined with the power of the state. In old China, the bureaucrat-capitalist class was the big bourgeoisie of China.

In December 1947, Mao Zedong pointed out in his report “The Present Situation and Our Tasks”: “During their twenty-year rule, the four big families, Chiang, Soong, Kung and Chen, have piled up enormous fortunes valued at ten to twenty thousand million U.S. dollars and monopolized the economic lifelines of the whole country. This monopoly capital, combined with state power, has become state-monopoly capitalism. This monopoly capitalism, closely tied up with foreign imperialism, the domestic landlord class and the old-type rich peasants, has become comprador, feudal, state-monopoly capitalism. This is the economic base of Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary regime. This state-monopoly capitalism oppresses not only the workers and peasants but also the urban petty bourgeoisie, and it also injures the middle bourgeoisie. This state-monopoly capitalism reached the peak of its development during the War of Resistance and after the Japanese surrender; it has prepared ample material conditions for the New-Democratic Revolution. This capital is popularly known in China as bureaucrat-capital. This capitalist class, known as the bureaucrat-capitalist class, is the big bourgeoisie of China. Besides doing away with the special privileges of imperialism in China, the task of the New-Democratic Revolution at home is to abolish exploitation and oppression by the landlord class and by the bureaucrat-capitalist class (the big bourgeoisie), transform the comprador, feudal relations of production and release the social productive forces.” Bureaucrat-capitalism and bureaucrat-capitalist class were the enemies of Chinese revolution.