agitprop

Definitions

1. 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.
   also, attributive, uncountable
2. An instance of such propaganda.
   countable
3. An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

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