Both Uses of
agitate
in
The Communist Manifesto
- Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.†
*agitation = the act of stirring up (emotionally or physically); or a state of emotional unrest
- In the French revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart.†
Definition:
to stir up or shake -- emotionally (as when people are angered or upset) or physically (as when a washing machine cleans clothes)