Comprador

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A comprador or compradore (English:

South East Asia
, and, by extension, social groups that play broadly similar roles in other parts of the world.

Etymology and usage

The term comprador, a

Jardine, Matheson & Co., allegedly became the richest man in Hong Kong by the age of 35.[4][page needed] The Hong Kong firm of Li & Fung, founded in 1906, partly functioned as a Canton comprador in its early stages.[citation needed
]

Marxist theoreticians in the 20th century applied the term comprador bourgeoisie to similar trading-classes in regions outside East Asia.[5][6][7][8]

With the emergence or the re-emergence of

developing world in subordinate but mutually-advantageous relationships with metropolitan capital. The Egyptian Marxist Samir Amin (1931-2018) discussed the role of compradors in the contemporary global economy in his work.[9] In addition, the Indian economist Ashok Mitra (1928-2018) labelled the owners and managers of firms attached to the Indian software industry as compradors.[10] Growing identification of the software industry in India with comprador "qualities" has led to the labeling of certain persons associated with the industry as "dot.compradors".[11][12][failed verification
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Marxist terminology counterposes a comprador bourgeoisie, perceived as the serving the interests of foreign imperial powers, to a national bourgeoisie, which is considered as opposing foreign imperialism and promoting the independence of its own country and, as such, could be, under some circumstances, a short-term ally of socialist revolutionaries.

Russian state as in itself a comprador in a system of comprador capitalism.[13]

Notable compradors

China

Bangladesh

  • Latifur Rahman

See also

References

  1. ^ "comprador". oxforddictionaries.com. OXford University Press. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Comprador" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 813.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-0521320542
    . 0521320542.
  4. ISBN 978-1-84511-419-0
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  5. ^ Mao Zedong; Michael Y. M. Kau, John K. Leung (eds.) The Writings of Mao Zedong - Volume II 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957. M.E. Sharpe, 1992, p. 136
  6. Marxists.org
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  7. ^ Slobodan Antonić: Компрадори 10 April 2010
  8. ISBN 978-1931859-45-5
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  9. ISBN 1906387796
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  10. ^ Mitra, Ashok. "Hour of the Comprador". The Telegraph, Kolkata, 27 April 2007 - "The tribe who were boot-lickers of the British — compradors par excellence — had got totally eclipsed in India amidst the fervour and frenzy of the freedom movement. Circumstances are however forcing a re-recognition of Arnold Toynbee: history is a victim of the virus of circularity. The country is creeping back to a comprador climate. The new generation of information technology barons, spawned by the surge of outsourcing, is determined to transform the land into impeccable comprador territory."
  11. ISBN 9780745332659
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  12. ISBN 978-962-209-688-2. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2018-09-11. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
  13. ^ Delyagin, Mikhail Gennadyevich (2013-02-18). "В России установился компрадорский капитализм" [Compador capitalism has established itself in Russia]. Archived from the original on 2017-04-27. Retrieved 2023-09-04. У нас парадокс в том, что компрадорскую политику проводит само государство. [We have a paradox in that the state itself operates comprador politics.]

Further reading

External links

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