New bourgeoisie
The new bourgeoisie, also known as the restored bourgeoisie is a term to describe the capitalist (bourgeois) elements which emerge during the course of socialist construction, particularly its early stage. The restored bourgeoisie can manifest from a number of sources, including commodity production, divergences in pay grade, and money-exchange. To combat the restored bourgeoisie, the means of production must be constantly revolutionized and other conditions which give rise to them eliminated to prevent them from gaining a basis in the superstructure of the socialist state.[1]
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- ↑ Communist Party of India (Maoist) (2017). China: A Modern Social-Imperialist Power.
"Yet there will continue to be opportunities for the bourgeoisie and other inhibitors of growth to arise and multiply, even in socialist society. The new bourgeoisie can arise in many places – production of essential commodities, money-exchange and distribution according to work, such as pay in 8 variable grades. Even with the bourgeoisie overthrown, means of production and money still exist; some peasants and petty-bourgeois classes retain properties. These become the foundation for small-scale production. Nascent capitalism can grow from these seeds by leaps and bounds. There remain under socialism basic differences between mental and physical work, agriculture and industry, working class and peasantry, towns and villages and different areas and communities. Backward factors such as hangers-on in culture, traditions, and practices then become bases for attacking the foundations of socialism, as all remain present in the superstructure. Resistors of socialist construction, revanchists and revisionists become a “holy coalition” with support from the external imperialist powers. Neo-bourgeois power-blocs arise due to growth in capitalist elements. To develop the productive forces and superstructure in accordance with the economic base of socialist society, it is necessary to revolutionize the relations of production constantly. One of the prime duties of the dictatorship of the proletariat is to create conditions unsuitable for the emergence of the neo-bourgeoisie to prevent it from gaining a foothold in the superstructure."