The Deprogram podcast

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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/Didar100 on 2025-06-17 20:55:58+00:00.

Original Title: My West European comrades, please, tell me, what is the strategy? Labour aristocracy is strong here especially among the whites, any empathy with the global South/revolutionary politics is nonexistent. Whats a strategy? We can only hope the global South becomes independent/worsen the conditions here

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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/airplane3579 on 2025-06-17 17:25:23+00:00.

With tensions escalating rapidly between Isn'treal and Iran and the increasingly likelihood of direct U.S. involvement, it's becoming increasingly clear that a regional war or even wider conflict could act as a catalyst for a hyperinflationary spiral, particularly for the US. This wouldn't just be a geopolitical crisis, it would rip through the global capitalist economy at a moment of profound internal fragility due to its own internal/external contadiction.

The United States is no longer the industrial powerhouse it was in 1941. It's a hyper-financialized, debt-addicted empire reliant on imports, asset/debt bubbles, and an increasingly brittle dollar hegemon status. If war erupts and Iran responds by closing off trade routes like the Strait of Hormuz where ~20% of the world's oil alone passes through, we’re looking at a shock that will push oil to $150–$300/barrel or higher. That spike won’t just hit gas stations, it will reverberate through agriculture, shipping, manufacturing, and everything downstream. Supply chains will convulse, prices will explode, and capital will panic.

But it won’t stop there.

We’re already witnessing record interest payments on U.S. debt, waning foreign appetite for treasuries, and the potential of monetizing debt via the Fed in the form of secondary market interventions. This is where capitalist contradictions hit critical mass: the state must spend more on war and interest, while the money printer goes brrr to finance war industries and the military industrial complex monopolist capital via state military contracts which would amplify inflation, drive up treasury service rates, resulting in a situation that demands even more intervention.

This is a feedback loop, not a policy tool. It’s not the 1940s anymore. The U.S. doesn’t have the industrial base to absorb the cost of imperialist war and has no New Deal social cohesion to draw on. The reserve currency status of the dollar now requires global trust, and nothing shatters that trust faster than geopolitical overreach on top of internal economic instability and contradictions.

If hyperinflation emerges, it won’t be from scarcity alone, but from collapsing confidence in a capitalist system that can no longer manage its contradictions. People will spend money faster and faster to outrun price increases and treasuries would need massive injections of liquidity that it would make 2020 look like a joke, and ordinary proletarians will bear the brunt.

As Lenin noted, imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and this may be the point where its contradictions implode simultaneously: endless war, falling profit rates, internal decay, social atomization, and the failure of the dollar as global money.

Basically, a war with Iran could be the spark that lights the whole powder keg.

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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/SublatedWissenschaft on 2025-06-17 17:32:10+00:00.

And it WILL turn.

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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/moustachiooo on 2025-06-17 15:23:20+00:00.

...without any critical thinking on the topic. I asked a solid liberal buddy why he was so in love with Obama, which policies did he like and his reply...'he was the first black president'.

Goes without saying that they disregard the discrepancies now coming to light in the 2024 election and blame folks like me for not voting for an extension to the OG genocide promoter - from Biden the demented Butcher to Kamala.

Also, they are deafeningly silent on the ongoing genocide with a rare token headshake at the soul crushing daily crime of the US -Israeli Holocaust in Palestine.

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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/gndsman on 2025-06-17 14:39:59+00:00.

Original Title: "yeah we attempted to mass murder an entire ethnic group. and probably will allow scumbags like Trump to build real estate on their unmarked graves. but hey we stole their dog as well. doesnt this justify our 'divine mandate' guys? 🇮🇱"

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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/Additional-Hour6038 on 2025-06-17 14:34:21+00:00.

Has anyone else been noticing this trend a lot on Reddit? Many subs will remove or ban your posts just for mentioning the name Palestine etc. Supposedly because they're apolitical, but often only for that conflict, others are just fine...

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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/VoteForGodzilla on 2025-06-17 13:49:01+00:00.

I supported China's non-interference policy, even when others complained about it, as it seemed like the most logical and sensible thing for the Chinese to do, given their stage of societal and economic development. But the current situation is extremely dangerous and I believe that if China only focuses on words and trade right now, it will eventually come to bite them back. Letting Syria fall was horrible in itself but atleast one could make the argument that, in Syria, things had gotten out of hand and it seemed like it got to a point of no return.

But, with Iran, it's different. China will truly regret if it allows Iran to fall, on the backdrop of a brutal, ruthless and inexplicably violent Israeli-U.S. assault. The West will do everything in its power to destroy Iran. The western ruling class and their elites are waiting, like vultures, to pick out the remains of whatever is left of Iran, once they are done with their massacre. I don't think Russia would want to intervene in the conflict. Even if they do, they are already in the middle of a major war and can't stretch their limits for another one. That leaves Iran with only one other major power - China. I do not want the Chinese people to be unnecessarily subject to violence, but I believe if the west goes on taking down those who stand up to their imperialist arrogance one by one, it will eventually come for China, and I think we all know that is exactly the plan. But that burden will be a lot heavier to carry all alone.

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