This review of Capital, Volume II is the second installment in our Weaponized Intellects reconstruction of Marx’s trilogy. If you haven’t read the first review—where we follow Marx from the commodity to surplus-value, machinery, accumulation, and the so-called primitive accumulation—start there: Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation . Time... 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 →
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 →
Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Empire This essay is a polemical intervention into a recent Jacobin interview with NYU sociologist Vivek Chibber, published as a transcript of an episode of Confronting... Continue Reading →
Neo-Colonialism and the Limits of Independence
Kwame Nkrumah’s Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism and the Structural Trap That Confronted the Ghanaian Revolution By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025 Writing from Inside the Trap Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism is not a book written from the safety of theory. It is written from inside power, under... Continue Reading →
Poisoned at the Root: How Empire Turned the Global Food System Into a Chemical Battlefield
A Guardian report highlights the increasing toxins in food but fails to identify the underlying systems and corporations responsible for this crisis. The analysis reveals how synthetic chemicals result from a political and economic framework that prioritizes profit over health, affecting vulnerable populations globally. It calls for grassroots resistance and food sovereignty movements to confront these issues.
Dope, Dollars, and Domination: A People’s History of Narco-Imperialism and the Making of the American Empire
The Drug War Isn’t a War — It’s the Operating System of U.S. Empire. From opium clippers to CIA proxy armies, from Panama’s offshore laundromat to Colombia’s paramilitaries and Mexico’s neoliberal narco-state, narcotics have long served as the financial engine, covert budget, social-control mechanism, and geopolitical scaffolding of the American Pole. By Prince Kapone |... Continue Reading →