agitprop

noun

1. (also, attributive, uncountable)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.

   “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.”

2. (countable)An instance of such propaganda.
3. (countable)An organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.

verb

1. (ambitransitive)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?”

   “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.”

   “Envoys and missionaries agitpropped in the four corners of the Empire, [...]”

   “More an insecure platform for Mr. [Mbongeni] Ngema's didacticism than a play with a life of its own, "Township Fever" is agit-propped with polemical sloganeering.”