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Agitprop N Political Propaganda Form Art National Council

Word agitprop
Definition n. Political propaganda in the form of art.
Sentence The National Council of Labour Colleges sponsored agitprop theater groups, and from that platform Ness Edwards denounced Shakespeare and nearly all other important playwrights as reactionaries: only Shaw and Ib
sen won his guarded approval.
Source The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose

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