Agitprop

Agitprop is the abbreviation of отделагитацииипропаганды ( otdel agitatsii I propagandy ), i.e. Département for agitation and propaganda , body of the Central committees and regional of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. This department was famous later in ideological Département .

The term “propaganda” carries, in Russian, no negative connotation as in French or English. It means “diffusion of ideas simply”. Also Agitprop was it to diffuse the ideas of the Marxisme-léninisme, of the explanations of the policy followed by the single Parti. In other contexts the Propagande recovered the diffusion of all kinds of useful knowledge, such as for example of the methods agronomists.

As for “agitation”, it pressed the citizens to be acted in accordance with the aspirations of the Soviet leaders.

In other words, propaganda was supposed to act on the spirits when agitation was played of the emotions, although both were used together, from where the stereotype “propaganda and agitation”…

Contemporary use

The term “agitprop” is used today, in reference to any form of “Mass-media” which aims at influencing the opinion with fine policies, commercial, etc, and particularly if it tries to persuade them in “agitating” their spirits using an emotional rhetoric. It relates to also art to use the same mass media while being pointed out by spectacular actions concerned with the Provocation.

In addition it indicates also certain forms of Entrisme. Thus, nowadays, one often shows agitprop

  • the international Socialist, because it mitigates its lack of presence in the working mediums by a great activism in the university spheres;
  • newspapers, often held by great multinational groups or with the ideological hands of mobilities, and their journalists, because they diffuse the ideas which are puffed up for them by the lobbies (see also: Misinformation);
  • governments built on radical political doctrines and directed by leaders such Hugo Chavez or Nicolas Sarkozy and seeking to propagate these doctrines to widen their influence on other countries.
  • but also the American Christian integrist movements which make use of the music or the literature like means of evangelization;

It is interesting to note that in spite of its Russian origins, the term is very seldom used today in the ex-USSR.

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