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"Agitation Propaganda"

Published on 2023 | Revised on 2025-03-19

For every solution-ist worth their salt there are a dime-a-dozen if not more agitation people - who rile up their audiences leaving them in a frenzied state over often inconsequential and sometimes faraway events

Georgi Plekhanov, dubbed the father of Russian Marxism, believed propagandists present many ideas to one or a few people whereas agitators present only one or a few ideas to a mass of people

To which he describes agitation using 'slogans and half-truths' and 'exploited public grievances' to mould public opinion and mobilise support

Lenin explained in a 1902 pamphlet, 'What Is to be Done', his beliefs on the role of the propagandist and agitator

Agit-prop lives on from soviet-times, its spiritual descendents being the numerous political pundits littering your feed after any major politicism whose long-winded rants while sometimes dropping pithy remarks only tangentially touch on 'possible' solutions.

Addendum

So agitation propaganda really is like casting spells onto the masses, the spells being hard-coded signals to your anger receptors. Rule by rumourville