agitprop
/ˈæd͡ʒətˌpɹɑp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.05 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
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 Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Uncountable
verb
To disseminate (something as) political propaganda, especially communist propaganda, through art, drama, literature, etc.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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?"
- "This 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."
Etymology
The noun is borrowed from Russian агитпро́п (agitpróp, “agitprop”), Агитпро́п (Agitpróp, “Agitprop (Department for Agitation and Propaganda of the Soviet Union)”), short for отде́л агитации и пропаганды (otdél agitacii i propagandy, “Department for Agitation and Propaganda”); analysable as a blend of agitation + propaganda. The verb is derived from the noun.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: агитпро́п
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈæd͡ʒətˌpɹɑp/
- British English: /ˈædʒɪtpɹɒp/