agitprop
Collocations
3ADJ.
most, north, right
AGITPROP + NOUN
bureau, donald, lucas
PREP.
in, in, with
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noun
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 Centr
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.
An instance of such propaganda.
An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
verb
To disseminate (something as) political propaganda, especially communist propaganda, through art, drama, literature, etc.
Anyone who has seen a class struggler at work, agitpropping around Union Square, or the back streets of the Loop, realizes that, by the very nature of things, he or she is so possessed of that particular barricading dream as to lose touch with all reality, [...]
With respect to a poet's facility in logomachy, boredom in the area of power politics theorisation, the seriousness or gaiety with which he agitprops his ego, the degree of his attitude toward the superior poet, or the rebelliousness or conformity of his disciples?
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6Russian 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
WiktionaryThe letter was pure puffery, probably written by some clerk in North Korea's agitprop bureau, but [Donald] Trump loved it.
WiktionaryLike most pieces of agitprop, the Lucas and Sargent paper vastly overstated the deficiencies of the old order.
WiktionaryAnyone who has seen a class struggler at work, agitpropping around Union Square, or the back streets of the Loop, realizes that, by the very nature of things, he or she is so possessed of that particu
WiktionaryWith respect to a poet's facility in logomachy, boredom in the area of power politics theorisation, the seriousness or gaiety with which he agitprops his ego, the degree of his attitude toward the sup
WiktionaryThis 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.
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