Hugo Chávez’s notebook for militants: party-building, revolutionary ethics, and the commune as the material base of people’s powerEdited by Prince Kapone • January 4, 2026Introduction Socialism of the 21st Century is not a memoir, a slogan, or a museum piece. It is a field manual for a revolution under siege — a set of sharp,... 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 →
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 →
From “Stay Woke” To American Dreaming: The Liberal Capture of Identity Politics, the Rise of DEI, and the Soft Counterinsurgency That Replaced Revolution With Representation
How a radical method of seeing the empire became a tool for managing it, and why reclaiming “woke” requires breaking with the settler state and realigning with global anti-imperialist struggleBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 6, 2025When “Woke” Left Home and Got Jumped by the EmpireOnce upon a time, before cable news discovered... Continue Reading →
Life, Terror, and the Making of Soviet Power: Liberal Revisionism, Western Marxism and Siege Socialism
A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of Robert W. Thurston’s Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934–1941By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review - October Revolution Series | November 22, 2025Entering the Battlefield of Soviet HistoryLet’s begin with a simple truth that Western academia has spent a century trying to bury: the meaning of the... Continue Reading →
Fists Against the World: The Boxer Rebellion and the War for China’s Soul
Read the previous essays in this series:Silver Against the Dragon: China, the World Market, and the Long Prelude to the Opium War Primitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market The Heavenly Commune: Taiping Rebellion and the Spectre of Peasant Communism From the ashes of the... Continue Reading →
Dick Cheney: Death of a War Criminal
The architect of torture, endless war, and the U.S. surveillance state is gone — but the empire he built remains. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 4, 2025 Death of a Statesman, Survival of a System Dick Cheney died, and the newspapers called him a patriot. The television anchors tightened their faces into... Continue Reading →
No Kings: Liberal Rituals, Imperial Power, and the Crisis of American Legitimacy
How the ruling class staged a mass protest to save the presidency—not dismantle it—and why a real “No Kings” movement must break the throne, not defend it.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 22, 2025Rituals for a Throne: How “No Kings” Became a Crown-Saving CeremonyThey told the country a stirring tale: on October 18,... Continue Reading →