An Associated Press report presents Japan’s remilitarization as reluctant self-defense rather than a political choice shaped by power. Beneath the calm language, constitutional erosion and alliance discipline are reframed as common sense. Placed in historical and geopolitical context, Japan’s military buildup appears as a reassignment of roles within a U.S.-led imperial order in crisis. Against... Continue Reading →
Who Owns Venezuela?
Trump’s claim that Venezuela “stole” U.S. oil is not a gaffe or exaggeration—it is an imperial verdict. This essay dismantles that claim by tracing the conflict over Venezuela’s resources through international law, the neoliberal wreckage of the pre-Chávez era, the Bolivarian rupture, Maduro’s Plan de la Patria, and María Corina Machado’s restoration blueprint. What emerges... Continue Reading →
Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation
A Weaponized Intellects reconstruction of Capital that follows Marx’s dialectical knife from the commodity to the state, exposing capitalism not as a flawed system in need of reform, but as a coherent social order built on abstraction, dispossession, and organized domination—and reclaiming Marx’s method as a weapon for the global working class and colonized nations.... Continue Reading →
Socialism Under Siege: Civil War, Degeneration, and the Fight to Keep Power in the Hands of the Masses
Socialism has never developed in peace. Forced to build under permanent imperial encirclement, every revolution has faced the same central contradiction: how to defend power without allowing administration to replace politics and coercion to substitute for mass legitimacy. Tracing this struggle from 1917 through Mao and into post-Mao China, this essay argues that siege is... Continue Reading →
Science of Coercion: How Empire Turned Knowledge into a Weapon
A Weaponized Intellects review of Christopher Simpson’s Science of Coercion, exposing the Cold War origins of communication studies as a psychological warfare project, tracing how liberal academia became an auxiliary arm of empire, and recovering this buried history as a weapon for revolutionary struggle in the age of technofascism. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information... Continue Reading →
Strangled In The Cradle: Sanctions, Siege, and the Imperial War on Socialist Development
How imperialism strangled socialist revolutions through sanctions, blockades, and economic warfare—and why socialism was never judged on its own terms, but only under siege. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 24, 2025The Alibi They Hand You When They Don’t Want You to Ask Who’s Holding the Knife“Socialism never worked anywhere.” You’ve heard it... Continue Reading →
Towards a New Political Science: Politics as the Science of Power
A rupture with procedural political science and canonical abstraction, this essay reconstructs politics as the scientific study of power—how it is accumulated, organized, enforced, and resisted—drawing on revolutionary praxis, settler colonial history, and imperial crisis to redefine what political theory is, who produces it, and what it is for. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information... Continue Reading →
Gramsci Disarmed: How Empire Turned a Communist Strategist into a Cultural Mascot
A polemical reconstruction of Antonio Gramsci as a Leninist revolutionary whose theory of hegemony was forged to solve the problem of power under advanced capitalism—and how imperial academia captured, fragmented, and neutralized that theory to manage dissent rather than overthrow domination.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 22, 2025Gramsci in the Imperial Seminar RoomIn... Continue Reading →
Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus, Marx, and the Struggle Against Determinism in an Age of Imperial Decline
A Weaponized Intellects review of John Bellamy Foster’s Breaking the Bonds of Fate — recovering Epicurus as a foundational materialist, tracing Marxism’s insurgent struggle against determinism and inevitability, and reasserting historical agency against the politics of surrender in an age of imperial decline. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information — Weaponized Intellects Book Review |... Continue Reading →
Who Paid the Pipers? Empire’s Safe Marxism and the War on Revolutionary Consciousness
A Weaponized Intellects review of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? — exposing Western Marxism as an imperial product, tracing the institutional machinery that manufactures “harmless” radicalism, and reclaiming Marxism as an anti-imperialist weapon for the global working class and colonized nations. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information — Weaponized Intellects Book... Continue Reading →