Word: agitprop
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...Capitalism, he's back outside the gates of GM--which, after declaring bankruptcy, was far less solvent than Moore. Talk about the little guy triumphing over the system: somehow, in the past 20 years, the free-enterprise system has been kinder to the agitprop indie filmmaker than to his auto-giant adversary. A man who made his career attacking corporate America has become a pretty big business himself...
...showing himself to be. The viral video ad the McCain campaign released isn't a hit because people see through this desperate strategy. Since the Democratic primaries, Obama has clung to a belief in meaningful arguments and substance. He has refused, so far, to pander to the kind of agitprop that the Bush campaign ran in 2004 to defeat Kerry. McCain, though, seems determined to deploy the slime. Is America really going to let itself be swift-boated again? Leslie Castello, Jacksonville...
Another point strategists have taken note of: the Russians' apparent use of computer-generated attacks on Georgian servers and websites in the days before the invasion. While much of the hacking sounded like old-time Soviet agitprop - particularly reports of alleged Georgian genocide against ethnic minorities in South Ossetia - military schools will be studying the fact that such an electronic assault moved in tandem with the real invasion. How much did it help the Russians achieve their goals, either on the battlefield or in public opinion around the world...
...Chan's agitprop may not be commanding much attention in Beijing's halls of power, but it has entranced Hong Kong's press. Images of the attractive undergrad confronting police had photographers' lenses aflutter in a city whose fringe dissidents and stodgy politicians are hardly red-carpet stars. But many see Chan as a naive, media-hungry dilettante, an impression only heightened after Facebook photos of her partying with friends in clubs were leaked to Chinese tabloids...
...argument that a critical edition would prevent abuse of the tract for far-right agitprop doesn't persuade critics of an un-banning either. "The text is easily available abroad and on the Internet," argues Jürgen Faulenbach from the Federal Agency for Civic Education in Bonn. "Nobody can prevent people from quoting it or using it for [illegal] purposes, and an edition like the one some people now call for won't change that...