Agitprop

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  agitprop \agitprop\ n.
     1. [agitation + propaganda.]
  
     1. agitation and propaganda; -- used especially for such
        activities carried out on behalf of communist activists.
        [PJC]


  
     2. a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist
        some cause or some government; one disseminating
        {agitprop[1]}. Also called {agitpropist}.
  
     Syn: propagandist
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  agitprop
       n : political propaganda (especially Communist propaganda)
           communicated via art and literature and cinema

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "agitprop":
     agent provocateur, agitator, catalyst, demagogue, exciter,
     firebrand, fomenter, incendiary, inciter, indoctrination, inflamer,
     instigator, mischief-maker, propaganda, propagandism, propagandist,
     provocateur, provoker, rabble-rouser, ringleader, rouser,
     seditionary, seditionist, troublemaker, urger