agitprop
Definitions
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- noun political propaganda disseminated through art, literature, drama, etc., especially Communist propaganda
- noun An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
Examples
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The country's propaganda office-modeled after the similarly named Soviet agency whose efforts gave rise to the term "agitprop"-is tasked with disseminating slogans, artwork, movies, and media reports that reinforce the regime.
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That a once-respected and influential journal should publish this kind of agitprop is truly disgraceful.
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It all basically went down like this: CNN has spent the past few months documenting the activities of some of the conservative movement's new young guns, including O'Keefe, whose undercover agitprop is a staple of an organization called Project Veritas.
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But underneath the agitprop is financial violence: handouts to the wealthy, destruction of our infrastructure, desecration of the environment, and abandonment of the needy.
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There’s been a steady anti-union bias in every Presidential administration since Reagan and a relentless stream of agitprop from the media painting unions as the root of all evil in the modern workplace, when in fact the power and influence of labor is at all all-time low since the turn of the * last* century.
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Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Bolshoi performing on the Kennedy Center stage this month was markedly different from its former self, eschewing agitprop heroics for something more mellow and nuanced.
Note
The word 'agitprop' comes from Russian, short for Отдел агитации и пропаганды (Otdél agitácii i propagándy, "Department for Agitation and Propaganda").
