Word: agitation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With glib elliptical logic, the agit-prop actually suggests that the man can become the machine...
...ball. Born in 1893, he joined the Bolsheviks at the age of 14, became a Futurist poet, and then the brightest star in the Soviet poetic firmament for a decade or so after 1917. He evidently had mixed feelings about this. "I'm fed to the teeth with agit-prop," he remarked in a poem published about three weeks before his suicide in 1930. More important, he apparently had his doubts about whether the Soviet state was still worth writing agit-prop about. After his suicide Stalin announced he was the greatest poet of the Soviet era. Mayakovsky doesn...
...Fielder also went on to criticize the Rosenbergs' attitudes towards art, sports. Literature, and Judaism, and the couple's statements on these topics in their posthumously collected letters were, in fact, typical of a warped agit-prop sensibility. Both Fiedler and Robert Warshow [Commentary. Nov. '53] contended that the Rosenbergs lived an existence governed solely by their Communism, and that this was somehow disgusting. But even though the critics' background held traces of the Rosenbergs' Bronx roots, they weren't concerned at all with the process by which the couple's beliefs invaded the very marrow of their lives...
White critics. it seems, are running so scared that they either praise the film as art or write it off as necessary agit-prop. And the fantastic box-office success has probably compounded their intimidation. I would assume, however, the cause of the film's popularity lies in novelty: this is probably the first feature in which ghetto gangs burn a police car and are praised for it. Otherwise, the racially mixed audience I saw the film with snickered throughout van Peeble's "serious moments" as well as his hamhanded satire...
...film that speaks to the heart or mind of the American black militant; and it should be emphasized that it fails solely because of its creator's ineptitude, not because of studio interference or distributor cutting. Van Peeples doesn't know either politics or people, so his agit-prop is neither uplifting or arousing-only sickening. And it smells like a phony...