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agitprop

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun agitprop has 1 sense

agitprop(n = noun.communication) - political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema;

is a kind of

propaganda

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CIDE DICTIONARY

agitprop, n.

agitation and propaganda; -- used especially for such activities carried out on behalf of communist activists. [PJC]
a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government; one disseminating agitprop{1}. Also called agitpropist. [WordNet 1.5]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

agitprop, n. the dissemination of Communist political propaganda, esp. in plays, films, books, etc.

Etymology

Russ. (as AGITATION, PROPAGANDA)

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THESAURUS

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

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agitprop

Misteaching

N misteaching, misinformaton, misintelligence, misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion, misinstruction, misleading, perversion, false teaching, sophistry, college of Laputa, the blind leading the blind, propaganda, disinformation, agitprop, indoctrination, misteaching, unedifying, piscem natare doces, the blind leading the blind.

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