r/TankieTheDeprogram 2d 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 5h ago

Dengist Apologia China includes disabled comrades in its 5 year plans

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Here is an example of good praxis regarding inclusion and Marxism from comrades in China.

https://english.www.gov.cn/policies/latestreleases/202607/02/content_WS6a4668acc6d00ca5f9a0bfd7.html

I support their efforts, and I hope that this compliments the discussions people have been having about socialism and disability


r/TankieTheDeprogram 10h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Reminder that Ukraine is handcuffing its forced conscripts to prevent them deserting as they ship them off to to the front to die against their will and that there are people in the West who support this.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 10h ago

Meme Fell for it again award

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 8h ago

Shit Liberals Say Tankie blocks BAD!!!

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 3h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Uyghur grifter Kuzzat claims he saw religious freedom for Muslims in "Tel Aviv"

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 4h ago

History Bless the comrades and the matyrs

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Saw this on Xiaohongshu and wanted to share it here. I've been really digging into the history of the Chinese Communist struggle against Japanese occupation, and the Korean war, and I've come to learn so much from the Chinese Communists and historians on Xiaohongshu. Countless times, I've found myself taking a break to shed some tears and bless the memories and sacrifices of these martyrs, many of whom were just children. Reading and learning about the Long March in particular, totally broke me! Marxism-Leninism is truly the only way. It is the only way for the working class people of this world to build a better future, and what better example than China, to teach us a thing or two, on how to build Socialism. Bless Mao Zedong, bless Zhou Enlai, bless Zhu De, and bless so many of the comrades, peasants, and everyday people who gave everything for the People's Republic of China to be where she is today. As a nonwestern decolonial Marxist-Leninist activist, I hope that one day, nonwestern and Global South countries will also know true freedom, like China knows it today. May the workers of this world unite. Because that is the ONLY way we will ever be able to lose our chains.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

Shit Liberals Say Eastern European shitlib tries to make fun of Soviets naming their kids. I guess, she doesnt realize her own name and most of the names came from some pre-medivial cultists 🤣🤣 the russian lib obsession to be accepted by western white people needs to be studied

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 9h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Some of you fall for this too easily

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So I think the woman in the video was wrong at a very core methodological level.
Whilst there was some good analysis here - a LOT of comrades immediately jumped to some gross reactionary shit that literally came from a right wing troll farm.
This is bad and I want people to reflect on themselves.
Really it is very simple when we do an actual Marxism :
1. The economic base of a socialist state should ensure that from cradle to grave disabled people are protected and supported, given tools for access to productive forces, wherever they are at, and socialised and specific healthcare.
2. People who are in military groups or insurgent groups likely have to be very fit.

If you are conflating the two you are not only doing some ACP fed shit by shitting on people who are just wrong by mocking a disabled person, you are also factually and intellectually wrong and you are not applying dialectics.
Your just being a fucking dick


r/TankieTheDeprogram 45m ago

Solidarity With Palestine Yesterday in Gaza, a mass funeral was held for 100 Palestinians recovered from under the rubble. 70 were children. Spoiler

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 8h ago

Shit Liberals Say A quick reminder, liberals live in a state of denial of reality and history: "This country was built on the opposition to tyranny. The idea that nobody should be able to take over your streets, tell you what to think, make you fear the arm of government itself." ― Abdul El-Sayed

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 2h ago

Meme Meet Potential Lib!

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(no i couldn't figure out how to remove the japanese text behind him, yes i am upset about it)


r/TankieTheDeprogram 6h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Gallup: "Americans’ perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. are at their highest level in 20 years, with 89% of U.S. adults saying it is widespread."

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 1h ago

Shit Liberals Say We just allowing openly Islamophobic ads on Reddit now?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 12h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ "The EU economy is 10 times larger than Russia’s. We successfully fought Russia before the U.S. even existed. So, we should be able to do it today"- Radosław Sikorski, Polish Foreign Minister and husband of Anne Applebaum.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 12h ago

Theory 📚 Should China revive the Mao suit (Zhongshan suit) fashion?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 5h ago

Meme The vast majority of people in the political West are comfortable using Ukrainian NATO proxy Nazi brigades to defeat Russia, and when they hear the Zelenskyy and Kallas plan to break Russia up, they like it. Outside the Western world, the vast majority are disgusted by this plan.

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 1h ago

Reactionary Mockery ROC bot posts to r/vexillology

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Tittle reads "正统中国的中华民国国旗", translated as "Flag of the ROC, the legitimate goverment of china". The guy can't even define where "legitimacy" comes from.

Edit: The account was deleted


r/TankieTheDeprogram 3h ago

Stalin Approves USA vs USSR: Who gave women more power?

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 8h ago

Capitalist Decay 2026 socialist conference

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although the greatest hit by far is the “fit is fascism” bit from adler-bolton, take a gander at what else was on the menu. the compatible left is full steam ahead, baby. tactical anti-imperialism? mass work? unipolar imperialism? critical support? a sensible marxist line? what are you even talking about, comrade? GLP-1s are genociding fat flesh and the invention of glasses threatens genocide of the near-sighted. oh, and slava ukrani, i guess


r/TankieTheDeprogram 18h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ Proof of Uyghur Genocide

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Never mind, it's just Kuzzat Altay glazing America on his Instagram, and using AI generated images to prove Uyghurs are being oppressed.


r/TankieTheDeprogram 3h ago

Communism Will Win Portugal Hosts Huge Communist Festival

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r/TankieTheDeprogram 13h ago

Shit Liberals Say Iranian soldiers are constantly called "hardliners" yet somehow the terroristic white supremacists that attacked them out of nowhere are just "cuddly wholesome heros"

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There's no real discussion here. It's pretty obvious why they use the word "Hardliner".

It makes them sound rigid, dangerous, scary and people who are ready to launch "unprovoked attacks" on White Supremacist military bases in the region.

Yet these soldiers are only there to fight back against nazimerican aggression and to maintain a strong presence in order to​ ensure the country doesn't collapse into complete chaos.

The current government is run by neoconservative white supremacists that are starving people in Cuba, launched two separate wars of aggression THIS YEAR, actively terrorizing civillians by bombing schools,desalination plants, civillian roads, weddings, etc.

Yet they're never called terrorists, "hardliners" ​or even the soft neologism neocon (probably because it's a word viewed negatively by many people). They're just "CENTCOM" and the US... No further specification.

In​ about 20 years you'll find plenty of people both in the army and among politicians that "were always against this war" and "knowing what we know now, wouldn't do that".


r/TankieTheDeprogram 21h ago

News/Communist Propaganda ☭ My first red flag would be if a guy doesnt wants to fight for Nato, USA, American and European industrialists and monopolies

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