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Agitprop is art with a political job: a play, a poster, a song, or a film made to push a set of ideas, not only to entertain. English borrowed the word from Russian. It named a Soviet office whose title mixed agitation (stirring people up) and propaganda (spreading a message), and English speakers later used it for the art itself. In English it often sounds a little cold or critical — as if the work is a tool first and art second — though people who make political theatre sometimes wear the word without shame. You will meet it in writing about history, theatre, and protest, almost never in everyday chat. There is a verb too ("to agitprop"), taken from the noun, but it is rare; the noun is the one that matters.
政治宣傳藝術、宣傳鼓動（來自俄文；台灣日常少說，藝文、政治寫作裡較常見，也常直接保留英文）
組成Borrowed from Russian agitpróp, short for a department of agitation and propaganda. In English you can also hear it as a blend of agitation + propaganda.
同家族的字
- agitationthe "stir people up" half of the blend
- propagandathe "spread the message" half of the blend
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
agitpropnoun/ˈædʒɪtpɹɒp/
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governmentpoliticsPolitical 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.
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governmentpoliticsAn instance of such propaganda.
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governmentpoliticsAn organization or person engaged in disseminating such propaganda.
agitpropverb/ˈædʒɪtpɹɒp/
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governmentpoliticsTo 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?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。