Agitprop, Part 0 <http://eng.plakaty.ru/posters?id=150> "Lendiz: The books on all spheres of knowledge", Alexander Rodchenko, 1925 Agitprop The CU Agitprop course will now be serialised on this channel. The SACP by its Constitution is supposed to "educate, organise and mobilise". These three terms can be combined into one: "Agitate". The word "Propaganda" came into wide use after the "Congregatio de Propaganda Fide" (Latin for "congregation for the propagation of the faith") was set up by the Catholic Church in Rome in 1622. Its business was to "propagate", and what that means is: "Cause to grow in numbers or amount; extend the bounds of; spread (especially an idea, practice, etc.) from place to place. Grow more widespread or numerous, increase, spread. "Extend the action or operation of; transmit (motion, light, sound, etc.) in some direction or through some medium. Be transmitted, travel." These words quoted from the big ("New Shorter", 2-Volume) Oxford Dictionary can help to describe what we mean by Propaganda, in this course. Agitational Propaganda (Agitprop for short) is what this course is about. It is a practical course. It is about means, and arts. It starts with writing, but the course is saying that human expression and communication takes many forms. We use all of them, and we try to use them well. The ten parts of the course will be: 1 Writing, Editing and Press Releases 2 Layout, Fliers, Pamphlets, and Copy-shop Agitprop 3 'Paint', Posters and Graphic Art 4 Groups, Blogs, Web Sites, Multi-Media and the Universal Device 5 Song, Dance, Drama and Poetry 6 Banners, Flags, Clothing and Stalls 7 Marches, Seminars, Public Meetings, and Soap Box Oratory 8 Strikes, Work-to-rules, Sit Downs and Occupations 9 Broadcasting, Loudhailing and Exhibitions 10 Sound System, Carpentry, Painting and Catering Original texts In this course there are fewer "original texts" than usual in the Communist University courses. For that reason the "Openings to Discussion" will be compiled together and sent out as a booklet each week. This weekly booklet will also be used as the hard-copy document for discussion in live sessions. Where there are original texts, they will also be sent. . To download any of the CU courses in PDF files please click here <http://studycircle.wikispaces.com/Communist+University> . --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/594b8349.c9b21c0a.5c36f.5138%40mx.google.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
