Agitprop

Quick meaning: Agitprop is a noun meaning (countable) An instance of such propaganda.

Meaning

(countable) An instance of such propaganda.

More Meanings

1. (countable) An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
2. (ambitransitive, politics) To disseminate (something as) political propaganda, especially communist propaganda, through art, drama, literature, etc.
3. (uncountable, also attributively) 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.

Example Sentences

Envoys and missionaries agitpropped in the four corners of the Empire, [...]

Like most pieces of agitprop, the Lucas and Sargent paper vastly overstated the deficiencies of the old order.

The letter was pure puffery, probably written by some clerk in North Korea's agitprop bureau, but [Donald] Trump loved it.

More an insecure platform for Mr. [Mbongeni] Ngema's didacticism than a play with a life of its own, "Township Fever" is agit-propped with polemical sloganeering.

Word Forms

• agitprops
• agit prop
• agit-prop
• agitpropping
• agitpropped

Synonyms for agitprop

Depending on context, synonyms include propagandist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include propagandist, agit-prop, propagandism, propagandization, counterpropaganda, artivism.

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