Comprador

Compradors are a bourgeois class in colonized and neocolonized countries that collaborates with foreign imperialists. Compradors are often descendants of the feudal lords that were rich and influential before colonization. In some anti-imperialist countries that lack a comprador class, a group of neo-compradors arises that does not control the means of production but acts on the behalf of Western imperialist NGOs such as the NED and attempts to organize color revolutions.

Etymology

The term 'comprador' comes from Portuguese and referred to Asians who lived in ports and bought goods for the Portuguese to hold them until more ships arrived to load them.

By country

Iran

British colonialists appointed the Pahlavi dynasty to control Iran's oil supply. The last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in 1979, and a new anti-imperialist government took power and executed the comprador capitalists in revolutionary courts.