Fool breaks a part of scenery as artistic political statement (8)
I believe the answer is:
agitprop
'artistic political statement' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'fool breaks a part of scenery' is the wordplay.
'fool' becomes 'git' (both can mean an annoying person).
'breaks' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters break into the word).
'part of scenery' becomes 'prop' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a'+'prop'='aprop'
'git' put within 'aprop' is 'AGITPROP'.
'as' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for agitprop that I've seen before include "revolutionary comment" , "Would rat go pip badly for the propagandist?" , "Revolutionary stirring" , "revolutionary method" , "aggressive political publicity" .)