What's the difference between propagandist and revolutionist?

Propagandist


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who devotes himself to the spread of any system of principles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • (2) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
  • (3) Also killed was Samir Khan, a Pakistani-American who was a propagandist for Yemen's al-Qaida branch: al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
  • (4) I wouldn’t consider myself a propagandist but at the end of it the reality was that I was working for Putin.
  • (5) They do not step up to defend the government, its leaders, and their policies from criticism, no matter how vitriolic; indeed, they seem to avoid controversial issues entirely,” the study’s authors write of members of China’s “enormous workforce” of online propagandists.
  • (6) The Kuwaiti-born Briton known as Jihadi John was a cruel and violent propagandist, whose chilling video appearances on YouTube strongly suggested he was responsible for the brutal killings of several western hostages, including those of the two British aid workers, David Haines and Alan Henning.
  • (7) Tudor propagandists in the 16th century portrayed him in a negative light.
  • (8) He had also grown disillusioned with his own role as a propagandist, his contorted attempt to distinguish between 'honest' and 'dishonest' propaganda evidently having failed.
  • (9) On a wet afternoon in Eastwood cemetery how unlikely this hope seems: that a working-class movement, powerful for a time in Glasgow, could take on the nation states of Europe and defeat their crowned heads, bureaucracies, treaty obligations, propagandists and armies.
  • (10) Talk to a young person for more than five minutes and any government propagandist would realise it's not that they don't care about politics, it's that caring in any organised way feels futile, and their input feels unwanted.
  • (11) While Kandari was never formally accused of wrongdoing and denied both involvement in terrorism and any affiliations with terrorists, the board called him an al-Qaida recruiter and propagandist “who probably served as Osama bin Laden’s spiritual adviser”.
  • (12) Nor are the claims of the Syrian propagandists entirely lacking in truth.
  • (13) Elizabeth May, veteran head of the Canadian Green party claims to have read all the emails and declared: "How dare the world's media fall into the trap set by contrarian propagandists without reading the whole set?"
  • (14) Republicans and Democrats in the House failed to renew it today,” the president said, “and that inaction will directly hurt about 100,000 workers and their communities annually if those Members of Congress don’t reconsider.” The GOP has long strongly supported free trade – one Republican congressman, David Schweikert of Arizona, even compared fast-track opponents to Nazi propagandists, saying “Goebbels would be proud of them” on the floor of the House on Friday.
  • (15) But the state-run studio, which employs 4,000 people, is no stranger to creating gigantic works of art: its artists have built almost every statue, sculpture and piece of propagandist art currently on show North Korea.
  • (16) Several rivals can fight over certain themes within a person’s consciousness.” I had always imagined the phrase “information war” to refer to some sort of geopolitical debate, with Russian propagandists on one side and western propagandists on the other, both trying to convince everyone in the middle that their side was right.
  • (17) Had I dreamed up a plot of such cruel folly and heartlessness as May has provided, it would have been dismissed as too far-fetched, even propagandist.
  • (18) Put another way, the term at this point seems to have no function other than propagandistically and legally legitimizing the violence of western states against Muslims while delegitimizing any and all violence done in return to those states.
  • (19) Tudor propagandists, especially Shakespeare, ensured Richard has been seen as hunchbacked for centuries.
  • (20) He is silent on accusations made against him that he associates with antisemitic propagandists.

Revolutionist


Definition:

  • (n.) One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As manifestoists and strategists, artists and revolutionists, such men were in many ways mini-Marinettis.
  • (2) The revolutionists say they sparked it all but refused to play electoral politics and were betrayed by the liberals and squeezed out of the equation by the army and the Brotherhood.
  • (3) The revolutionists busied themselves with ideas about borderless futures and public ownership and crowd-sourced constitutions.

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