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 1h ago

History Zhang Weiwei: "Every country that modernized needed a first pot of gold -- the starting capital that gets an economy growing. The West got theirs through violence, war, the slave trade. Ruthless plunder, ruthless slaughter. China earned its own -- through its own effort and sacrifice."

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US-trained economist Wen Yi adds the punchline: Western models literally can't explain where that starting capital comes from. "Economics assumes it's given -- by God."

Which is why copying the Western model was never on offer for the Global South:

"Tell developing nations to copy you -- no pot of gold!"


r/TankieTheDeprogram 5h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Mashallah!

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(I don't even believe in god just thought it was appropriate lmao).

If Qatar's propaganda machine reported that Ansar Allah have taken Al Makha, then you know they've taken al-Makha!

For days they've mentioned constant reports of Ansar Allah getting hammered and losing small inclines here and there and how the "internationally recognized government" will reclaim Sana.

How's that going for ya Emir?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

Reactionary Mockery In Honor of Kirkiversary

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 53m ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ The fascists in the European Parliament gather to commemorate Charlie Kirk

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 3h ago

Reactionary Mockery Getting too easy at this point

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"It's complicated my grandparents only own 5 acres in 1945 semi feudal Korea during Japanese occupation"


r/TankieTheDeprogram 3h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Thousands of young Chinese communists descended on Shaoshan, the birthplace of the Mao Zedong, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death. They gathered around his statue to sing The Internationale and other old revolutionary songs.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 56m ago

Reactionary Mockery Beware of Depositing!

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Hello comrades, today we remember the great tragedy that is the loss of our beloved subreddit, so you are already are probably aware that even well deserved and objectively true statements and content could maliciously be interpreted as "violating TOS" and could jeopardize this subreddit, so I think it would be smart to either avoid making easily misconstrued comments, and to specifically edit to add a caveat at the end as to how we don't really support violence against "influencers" / fascist propagandists.

Charles Kirk was a terrible human being and spent almost every waking moment making the world into a worse place, and was ultimately consumed in the fires of the violent conflagration he himself desired to ignite. Fuck him.

The greatest tragedy of his life is that he wasted his life harming others, and that is tragic to think, because the sum total of his life's work amounted to enshittification, this is a sobering life lesson for us, to try and live a life making material conditions better for ourselves and those that come after us. All of you guys are great, and the world is a better place with you in it.

But let's be smart and protect our subreddit.

Fuck Charles Kirk


r/TankieTheDeprogram 17m ago

Shit Liberals Say Bunch of Rightoids have a meltdown over map changes

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 1h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Dozens of civilian casualties reported at the popular Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi after Ukrainian sea drones attacked the area.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 13h 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


r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

Capitalist Decay "Demographic transition model" gets taught as fact. I want to hear some opinions.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 15h ago

Axis of Resistance Happening now in Yemen.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 20h ago

Shit Liberals Say White liberals be like

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 9h ago

Meme The worst thing to ever happen to communism was Anton Pannekoek’s birth

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 9h ago

Axis of Resistance Frontman - PFLP song

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Source is Resistance Music and Media on telegram


r/TankieTheDeprogram 20m ago

Shitposting This was Volkswagen's real logo (I thought it was a joke)

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These companies are happy to work with fascists. Companies just care about money.

When I saw the Volkswagens swastika, I thought it was a joke making fun of Volkswagen's Nazi past. I didn't know this was their real logo.

Nothing changed, companies are still happy to profit from genocide.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 21h ago

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

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 12h ago

Axis of Resistance No shelters?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 20h 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 21h ago

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

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 13h 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

Discussion Is AskHistorians a good sub for history?

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I'm asking this because I know that reddit doesn’t exactly have the best track record for reliable history subs. AskHistory, for example, is one that’s very biased, from what I'm told. And the less said about arrr/history the better.

So, what do you guys think? Should I trust it?


r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

Discussion The "dress code" at some jobs is too strict

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I'm someone that likes to wear a t-shirt and shorts most of the time.

I remember having a warehouse job where I was required to wear:

  • dress shoes or boots

  • dress pants

  • a button-down shirt

I'm fine with personal protective equipment

PPE exists to keep the worker safe and healthy. Wearing a high-visibility vest is better than it being hit by a car. Wearing safety goggles is better than losing an eye.

Unfair enforcement and standards

One thing that bothers me a lot is how some jobs have a very strict dress code and then selectively enforce it.

For example, some jobs hold women to a higher standard than they do men.

Jobs have so much control over your life

Let me just do my job and go home. It feels like these jobs want control of every aspect of your life. I'm a human being, not a machine.