 Since people still don't seem to get it about Alex Jones and insist on linking to his materials from this site... Here is a lesson once again. You can find the term "Agitprop" in the BiblicalAgrarianism Encyclopedia:
Agitprop
From Wikipedia:
Agit-prop is a contraction of agitational propaganda. The term originated in Bolshevist Russia (future Soviet Union), where the term was a shortened form of отдел агитации и пропаганды (otdel agitatsii i propagandy), i.e., Department for Agitation and Propaganda, which was part of the Central and regional committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The department was later renamed Ideological Department.
The term propaganda in the Russian language
didn't bear any negative connotation at that time. It simply meant
"dissemination of ideas". In the case of Agit-prop, the ideas to be
disseminated were those of communism,
including explanations of the policy of the Communist Party and the
Soviet State. In other contexts, propaganda could mean dissemination of
any kind of beneficial knowledge, e.g., of new methods in agriculture.
"Agitation" meant urging people to do what Soviet leaders expected them
to do; again, at various levels. In other words, propaganda was
supposed to act on the mind, while agitation acted on emotions,
although both usually went together, thus giving rise to the cliché "propaganda and agitation".
In the western world, agit-prop has a negative connotation. In the United Kingdom during the 1980s, for example, socialist
elements of the political scene were often accused of using agit-prop
to convey an extreme left-wing message via television programmes,
theatre and even children's books. However, in a more general sense, a television cartoon might be described as 'agit-prop' if it could be interpreted as a marketing ploy to sell toys.
The term is frequently used in the modern Russian language to
describe information provided by mass-media, if it is considered to be
pro-government and biased. More pertinent usage: Among those in the US who are (or who tend to be) "anti-government" there are agents provocateur
who are paid government assets tasked with use of agitation and
propaganda (in this case anti-government propaganda, some of it
very,very true) to accomplish several very important tasks. In this
case an Agitprop is used to:
1. Create a sense of
overwhelming fear or concern, but in a way that results in immobility
or which makes the target increasingly numb to his/her condition or
reality.
2. Create the sense that something is being done, or
that evil men are being exposed and brought to justice, when in fact
nothing of substance ever really happens. The Agitprop will always
repeat that something should be done, or some action is crucial to stop
whatever impending disaster is looming, when a) nothing will actually
be done at all, or b) the actions suggested (such as 'call your
congressman', 'tell your friends', or more often than not, 'buy our
video or our book') will only give the target a false sense of action
and responsibility, with no corresponding successful results.
3.
Offer an outlet to moderate and concerned citizens that satisfies their
sense of duty and action, once again with no actual results.
4.
Help government officials track and monitor the more extreme elements
of the Agitprop's audience - those who take the message seriously and
go beyond the "talk and walk" do-nothingism of 99% of the audience.
This
is a classic use of the Agent Provocateur in resistance movements, and
only in America today are the people in those movements too stupid and
ignorant of history to look at the prime and transparent examples.
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