Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Political propaganda, especially favoring communism and disseminated through literature, drama, art, or music: "It also is a conspiracy movie, agitprop against today's targets, big government and big business” ( George F. Will).
Wiktionary
- n. political propaganda disseminated through art, literature, drama, etc, especially Communist propaganda
- n. An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. agitation and propaganda; -- used especially for such activities carried out on behalf of communist activists.
- n. a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government; one disseminating agitprop{1}. Also called
agitpropist .
WordNet 3.0
- n. political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema
Etymologies
- Russian, short for otdel agitatsii i propagandy, incitement and propaganda section (of the central and local committees of the Russian Communist party); name changed in 1934.
Examples
“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.”
“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
“That a once-respected and influential journal should publish this kind of agitprop is truly disgraceful.”
“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.”
“But underneath the agitprop is financial violence: handouts to the wealthy, destruction of our infrastructure, desecration of the environment, and abandonment of the needy.”
The Huffington Post: Bob Burnett: Election 2010: Choosing the Abuser
“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.”
“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
“Actually, the production's akin to the so-called agitprop of the '60s, but with better lyrics and music, and much better acting!”
“They haven't yet gotten as far as calling their agitprop "THE TRVTH" but that quasi-blasphemy is not far from what they are already offering (hint to conservative Christians: Jesus, not Noise Machine agitprop of whatever political camp, is The Truth).”
“14Given that Scott's initial problems with Wexley's work were less political than artistic, Dmytryk's analysis of the screenplay is particularly revealing: The trouble was that Wexley engaged in agitprop.”
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘agitprop’.
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Film
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