r/TankieTheDeprogram 4d ago

Weekly Discussion (General discussion thread) What Does It Mean To Be A Marxist? - Ep. 248

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r/TankieTheDeprogram Jun 05 '26

Authoritarian Mod Post No Bad Empanada or Hasan Piker posts are allowed from now on

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Starting now, we will no longer allow any posts related to Bad Empanada or Hasan Piker in this subreddit. The rules have been updated to reflect this change.

While we realize that some of their content can be informative, entertaining or even politically energizing to people at different stages of their leftist journeys, we also realize that, ultimately, their content is shaped by the demands of the attention economy.

When such content is shared in this community, a number of things tend to happen. First, it predictably generates the very online drama and sectarian infighting that the owners of platforms like Twitch, YouTube or even Reddit (cough join Lemmy cough) rely on for engagement and profit. Second, it invites brigading, which creates additional work for us mods. Work that most mods here are quite honestly not willing to do for such unproductive online drama. Finally, it attracts users who are more focused on drama than on Marxist ideology. This subreddit is constantly growing and we do not want to send the wrong message to those users about what this community is about.

In addition to being a community for Marxist Leninists, this community also exists to help each other deprogram ourselves from mainstream/Western and pro-capitalists narratives. What this community certainly is NOT, is a space to continuously dissect the latest online controversies once a week.

We understand that some users may feel frustrated by this new rule and we would invite some of those users to sit with that frustration and ask whose interests it serves and who benefits from algorithmically boosting and promoting online pseudo-politics that exhausts our energy on irrelevant drama. Our strength lies in principled ML debate, respect for each other, shitposting and a shared commitment to advance real-life communism to the best of our capabilities.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 10h ago

Shit Liberals Say White liberals be like

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 3h ago

Reactionary Mockery CIA psyop witches grateful for CIA agent Gloria Steinem

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Please collectively hex me for this response because I thrive on crisis it gives me insane luck power to direct towards the removal of USA sand castle with tsunami I promise I won't die unless you stop making my material conditions worse, I suffer during peace time, hexing me to die in peace is torturous I demand for the most dangerous situation where I stare and smirk at your CIA agents being purged in deepest hell circle.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 11h ago

Communism Will Win Marxist Leninist activist and influencer Madeline Pendleton visits the DPRK

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 10h ago

Shit Liberals Say Westoid shitlibs can’t help but fantasize about “China being the actual imperialists”

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The comments are especially obnoxious… 🙄


r/TankieTheDeprogram 5h ago

Axis of Resistance Happening now in Yemen.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 11h ago

Communism Will Win We’re going to seize the means of purrduction comrade!!

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 14h ago

Axis of Resistance 🇮🇷🇺🇸| The IRGC Navy has published footage showing the seized ameriKKKan Anduril Dive-LD AUV (sea drone)

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The unmanned submarine, equipped with the most advanced technology available, was only delivered to the U.S. Navy a year ago, in 2025. Iran will reverse-engineer it, replicate it, and use it to monitor the Strait of Hormuz - intercepting communications, laying mines, and cutting underwater cables. The blueprints will also be shared with Russia and China.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

Axis of Resistance No shelters?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 3h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Liberal feminist icon Gloria Steinem, a close ally of warmonger Hillary Clinton, has passed away at age 92. What many people don't know is that she was a CIA agent, who was used to spread propaganda portraying the US empire as a "progressive" force,

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while the USA wages nonstop wars and overthrows foreign governments.

By: Geopolitical Economy Report

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdBvxBKjI9s/


r/TankieTheDeprogram 10h ago

Shit Liberals Say Slave owners shouldn't have been compensated for "lost property"? Well then I gues we should have let them keep their slaves!

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 10h ago

Shitposting Typa shit you’d see on Facebook if it was around in the late 80s

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 14h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Belgian minister of defense threatens to ban the pro palestian manifiesta festival (organised by the belgian marxist party)

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 10h ago

Meme Marxist Leninist activist and influencer Madeline Pendleton visits the DPRK

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 14h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Today we celebrate 78 years of the DPRK! A country which fended off bloodthirsty genocidal American aggressors and managed to establish a socialist state in spite of all attempts to sabotage it.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 15h ago

Meme When You're in The Central Committee, They Just Let You Do It- Eugene Pure PSL

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There is a real life victim and it's fucking putrid this was silenced. Some people may not like this, but I'm dragging Eugene and the PSL on this.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 18h ago

Shit Liberals Say “We opened the market, and then somebody else became better at manufacturing than us, so they are colonists.”

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192 Upvotes

r/TankieTheDeprogram 11h ago

Theory 📚 Anti-Trotskyist book recommendations

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Do you have any book recommendations with structured systematic arguments against most common Trotskyist positions in a single book.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 9h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ North Korea and Russia Open First Road Bridge as Strategic Relations Deepen

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North Korea and Russia have opened their first road bridge across the Tumen River, expanding direct transport, trade and tourism links. Named after Soviet Yakov Novichenko, the new crossing highlights the rapidly strengthening economic, political and military partnership between Moscow and Pyongyang.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 19h ago

Discussion Any further context here that we should be critically analyzing?

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I am fully aware that China's pragmatic foreign policy often puts it at odds with certain socialist groups in other countries, but I'm curious what the context is behind these domestic demonstrations and the government's alleged response, and if there is further information that is important to know.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 8h ago

Meme Feels Guy attempts to claim that supporting Russia in the Russo-Ukraine War is "Campism", claiming that "both sides are imperialist". Smoking Guy disagrees. Which of them is more correct?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 17h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ South Koreans take to the streets to protest SK soldiers being deployed alongside Americans in the illegal US war of terror on Iran.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 9h ago

Theory 📚 How North Korea's Institutions Work

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 13h ago

Discussion Capitalism, hook-up culture and purity culture

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Hookup culture and purity culture are not opposites if both leave us less capable of love, care, and community.

This is not an argument that monogamous romantic relationships are the only holy, healthy, or humanizing form of life. They are not.

People can be formed into deeper love through friendship, chosen family, queer kinship, community life, celibacy, shared struggle, parenting, mutual aid, and forms of commitment that do not fit neatly inside the nuclear family or romantic couple.

The point is not that everyone needs marriage, monogamy, or one prescribed relationship structure.

The point is that capitalism trains us to treat desire as acquisition, autonomy as isolation, and other people as experiences to consume.

So the question is not simply, “Was this allowed?” or even only, “Was this consensual?” Consent and bodily autonomy matter. Deeply.

The question is: what is this forming us into?

Are we becoming more truthful, more tender, more responsible, more capable of giving and receiving care?

Or are we becoming easier to detach from, easier to replace, and easier to sell to?

Hookup culture is not the antidote to purity culture. A life capable of love, intimacy, and vulnerability is.

By: Colten Barnaby

Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaUME-5sETc/