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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.[1]
Etymology[edit | edit source]
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.[2]
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Iran[edit | edit source]
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.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sammy Ismail (2023-02-02). "Neo-compradors: the leftist foot soldiers of Imperialism" Al Mayadeen. Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
- ↑ Vijay Prashad (2017). Red Star over the Third World: 'Enemy of Imperialism' (p. 76). [PDF] New Delhi: LeftWord Books.