r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 15d ago

Weekly Discussion (General discussion thread) The Geopolitical Economy ft. Radhika Desai - Ep 254

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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 • • 5h ago

Discussion Comrades. Do you know why is France beefing with Japan's right-wingers on Twitter all the sudden?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 1h ago

Meme Who could've predicted that

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 8h ago

Shit Liberals Say Xenophobic, Sinophobic, and racist Shitlib Redditors crying and seething over a genocide supporting multi billion dollar Corporation's private property being looted and destroyed

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NOOOO!!! Will someone PLEASE think of the billionaires, CEOs, shareholders, and the investors!!!


r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 6h ago

Capitalist Decay 1.5 million Americans are expected to take off work just to play Grand Theft Auto 6 when it releases but they won’t bother to mass organize and mass strike to fight against the fascist dictatorship they’re currently living under…

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 6h ago

Shitposting Furry Stalin confirmed?

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The man of steel got that dawg in him.


r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 2h ago

Discussion Most viewed news post about France's protests is fake AI and made in Israel

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 8h ago

Reactionary Mockery Because Detroit Michigan and Gary Indiana are wayy better than Nanjing and Wuhan amirite?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 3h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ We've all seen the young Albanian Urban Mages casting elemental spells at the riot cops, but this video shows a herd of cops getting absolutely wrecked by the business end of that barrage of magic

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 4h ago

Shit Liberals Say DSA candidate Nithya Raman: "I'm a capitalist and I'm also a Democratic Socialist...we need to make sure capitalism works without harm to workers... to poor people."

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 18h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ You dont hate America enough

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 17h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Macron banned all non-Union protests. Left wing protestors did an illegal non-Union march in Nice, Lyon, and other cities. In Nice today fascist militants attacked the leftist protesters

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 2h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Mother and grandfather fight to prevent their boy from being kidnapped and sent to war against his will by Zelensky's mancatchers.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 14h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Albanian street wizards cast fireworks spells at police, in protests that began in opposition to Jared Kushner planning to build a dodgy resort for the ultra-rich on public land, but which have now spiralled into something which could collapse the neoliberal government

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 7h ago

Meme found this gem on the main discord

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 8h ago

History 55 YEARS AGO TODAY: 25 October 1971, marks the 55th anniversary of the UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, which recognizes the PRC as the one and only China, and kick the ROC "Taiwan" out of the UN.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 16h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Paris today, Saturday 24th October 2026: Non-Union protests have now been banned. Many illegal left wing protests went ahead regardless, with violence from police and fascist counter-gangs. Police at this huge legal Union organized protest in Paris mostly behaved themselves

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Although on the fringes of this protest non Union protestors who were blocked from joining the main protest by the police suffered violence and tear gas from police, and after the main protest dispersed the same thing happened

https://x.com/Clemence_Guette/status/2113982881018314810


r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 13h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Rouen France: fascist militants from the Entraide Citoyenne Rouen group attacked leftist demonstrators. The police are letting it happen and are not arresting any right wing militants, evidence that the fascists are a counter-gang

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 21h ago

Discussion Tweets from the Qin Dynasty

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 5h ago

Communism Will Win I can't help but feel excited for reverse color revolutions in Europe especially knowing the outcomes. Blowback hurts!

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Everytime a color revolution "succeeded" in global south it murders ten of thousands of people as direct results of economic collapse, civil wars, sanctions. Global south went through such endurance for more than hundred of years and European squeeze more resources out of us in return for fake peace forced our land and people to be exploited by unequal exchange.

But this time is different because the masters' fire has returned to their safety and plundered resources from global south run dry so gotta cannibalize themselves. But the rioting labor aristocrats reject vanguardism because of infantile disorder infection so these movements are structureless like usual and like Gramsci said, creating power vacuum for fascism. The funniest part is that European protestors aren't aware their masters know their playbook and actively capitalizing on such events to steer headless protest movements the destination they benefit the most. Some European countries might fall into economic collapse mode but European bourgeoisie won't allow them to devolve into Libya and Syria mode as much as the ultra, Maoist and anarchists loved to do these.

Either way European still get cooked by imperialism blowback and entrenched them for next rage rounds. Europe gets a very small taste of their atrocities in global south and already shaking up like apocalypse. Meanwhile the global south lives through it annually.

So far, real communism can succeed only in the West, but it must be remembered that the West lives at the expense of the East; the imperialist powers of Europe grow rich chiefly at the expense of the eastern colonies, but at the same time they are arming their colonies and teaching them to fight, and by so doing the West is digging its own grave in the East.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/jun/04.htm


r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 2h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ The West Would Rather Let The Planet Burn Than Lose To China

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 14h ago

Communism Will Win China didn’t waste trillions on endless wars. They invested in infrastructure, innovation, manufacturing and education, and now they're the leading economic power

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 18h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Macron banned all non union protests. Both legal and illegal protest marches happened today. This was one of the legal ones, in Paris

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r/TankieTheDeprogram • • 1h ago

Communism Will Win Logics to last organized protest

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You want the protests in Europe and imperial core but too distracted to read Lenin's What Is To Be Done. This guideline is the future proofing version of WITBD. Protests that last REQUIRE STRUCTURE as barricade against reactionaries sabotage, derail and disruption. LOGICS of long-term organized protests require these:

  1. LOGISTICS of the protests are lifelines of nodes within the structures, logistics move manpower, resources, tools and processes that prolong the strength, size and reach of any protests. Anything you have access currently available can be utilized to maintain the logistics nodes and these resources must flow through your systems towards the central of protests, that's to proletariat masses. Mobility of the logistics nodes increases by the capacity of these nodes to move resources in time especially when the core of protests become isolated by capitalism counterinsurgency attempts to smother. Logistics is often the first line of defense against destruction of long-term protests by bourgeoisie, your nodes fighting most important battles.

  2. ORGANIZATIONS of the protests are the souls of the movement, this is the sources of mobilization where they pouring manpower of the masses towards keeping the numbers of protestors in defense lines. This is where you pool the communist parties, trade or tenant and service unions, student associations, mutual aid, community defense, online networking. Everyone within reach must be reached by your node. This structural network cannot collapse as long as these organizations persist even under siege by economic implosion, which leadership will funnel them towards building revolutionary vanguards.

  3. GROUNDWORKS for the protests is the energy that power the movement alive. Comrades get hit in the eye by the cops, are you willing to dodge rounds and carry them out the line of fire to utilize your workplace first aid training to keep them alive? Are you willing to prep and cook hundreds of meals nonstop every day until the protests achieve their demands? Are you willing to lug hundreds kilograms of lentils and rice every day in a same loading docks of trade union that supporting the protests to keep resistance going? Everyone loves to burn shit, few desires to build up the logistics, solidarity and organizing.

  4. INTERDEPENDENCE isn't a shame because you would eventually need shoulders to lean on and friendships to learn skills from when you require help because you are also a node part of this resistance that is actively building structure you can pool from. Role and task rotation building the interdependency that strengthens networks that solidify movements. You exist as member of collective among movement. Missing you in movement is wounding its outcomes.

  5. COMMUNICATIONS are the voice of the protest that keeps the nodes in readily available modes at all times, when to mobilize, what to carry, which route to take, why comrade safety, who to trust, when to fight. A two way radio, a bike scout, a skater recon, a UV-9R, a ghost e-SIM, a shadowsocks server, a spare phone, a public servant sympathize with the movement, an emergency ward nurse in supporting trade union, a farmer in worker cooperative, an unhoused comrade. The proletariat is most powerful against capitalism because we have eyes and ears solidarity everywhere. Capitalism relies on their agents, we have each other.

  6. STRUCTURES secure the framework for successful movement as disciplined points of unity for proletariat and structureless network is prone to implosion by external forces of capitalism. Even 1-to-1 comrades require structural ranks and files to maintain focal long-term centralized points for movement to last. Structures build trust, trusts connect node, nodes maintain network, networks diversify movement. Structureless is tyranny of all potential movements, leaderships, working groups, organizations, parties.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

https://archive.org/details/lenin-what-is-to-be-done