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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Political propaganda, especially favoring communism and disseminated through literature, drama, art, or music.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun agitation and propaganda; -- used especially for such activities carried out on behalf of communist activists.
- noun a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government; one disseminating
agitprop{1} . Also calledagitpropist .
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- noun uncountable
political propaganda disseminated throughart ,literature ,drama , etc., especiallyCommunist propaganda - noun countable An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
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- noun political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema
Etymologies
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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.
Slate Articles Will Oremus 2011
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Maybe the Congressional Black Caucus, or Eric Holder, or even Media Matters, should put their money where their agitprop is and risk $100,000 to see if any witnesses come forward to back up their opponents in the New Black Panther incident.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the SG’s Brief in U.S. Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria 2010
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That a once-respected and influential journal should publish this kind of agitprop is truly disgraceful.
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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.
Bob Burnett: Election 2010: Choosing the Abuser Bob Burnett 2010
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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.
James O'Keefe's CNN Prank FAILS: Activist Planned To Stage Seduction Of Abbie Boudreau On Floating 'Pleasure Palace' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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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.
Bob Burnett: Election 2010: Choosing the Abuser Bob Burnett 2010
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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.
James O'Keefe's CNN Prank FAILS: Activist Planned To Stage Seduction Of Abbie Boudreau On Floating 'Pleasure Palace' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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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.
James O'Keefe's CNN Prank FAILS: Activist Planned To Stage Seduction Of Abbie Boudreau On Floating 'Pleasure Palace' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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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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More than £3.5 million has gone on recruiting a worldwide network of young "climate activists" in over 70 countries to engage in climate change propaganda - what Marxists used to call agitprop - and to pressure their politicians to join the worldwide struggle.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
qms commented on the word agitprop
In waiting rooms outside the docs'
The tv persistently squawks.
Oh, please make it stop!
It's crude agitprop -
That 'news' they distribute at Fox!
September 17, 2017
karpkatamala commented on the word agitprop
In the early 2000s, Peterson began buying these paintings on eBay because the irony of bidding for communist agitprop on the most capitalist marketplace ever devised was too delicious to resist. But he also bought them to remind himself of how glorious utopian visions often descend into unspeakable horror.
January 18, 2018