agitprop
nounEtymology
The noun is borrowed from Russian агитпро́п (agitpróp, “agitprop”), Агитпро́п (Agitpróp, “Agitprop (Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Soviet Union)”), short for отде́л агитации и пропаганды (otdél agitacii i propagandy, “Department for Agitation and Propaganda”); analysable as a blend of agitation + propaganda. The verb is derived from the noun.
Definitions
Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially…
Political propaganda disseminated through art, drama, literature, etc., especially communist propaganda; (specifically, communism, historical) such propaganda formerly disseminated by the Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- Russian Twitter and Facebook bots trolled both the left and the right with agitprop — in what appears to have been a general effort to deepen divisions and sow political chaos in America, not to favor one party or candidate over the other.
- The letter was pure puffery, probably written by some clerk in North Korea's agitprop bureau, but [Donald] Trump loved it.
- Like most pieces of agitprop, the Lucas and Sargent paper vastly overstated the deficiencies of the old order.
An instance of such propaganda.
An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
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To disseminate (something as) political propaganda, especially communist propaganda,…
To disseminate (something as) political propaganda, especially communist propaganda, through art, drama, literature, etc.
- This is to suggest that the university will leave behind its more limited work and bourgeois integrity in order to undertake the task of brain-trusting and agitpropping for the revolution.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for agitprop. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA