Read our previous essays in this series:Silver Against the Dragon: China, the World Market, and the Long Prelude to the Opium WarPrimitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market From opium-for-silver gunboat “trade” to a peasant commune that abolished rent and defied empire, the Taiping Rebellion... Continue Reading →
The Death Sentence of Western Marxism: Jalil Muntaqim’s We Are Our Own Liberators
A Weaponized Intellects book review of We Are Our Own Liberators by revolutionary soldier Jalil Muntaqim, who spent 49 years captive in the belly of the beast as a prisoner of war.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 20, 2025The Man, the Movement, the SentenceJalil Muntaqim wasn’t born with that name. The settler state... Continue Reading →
Becoming Human in the Ruins of Empire: James and Grace Lee Boggs Against Western Marxism
A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Centuryby James and Grace Lee Boggs. This classic exposes the dead-end of Western Marxism and calls us to remake humanity through struggle.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 18, 2025The Future Belongs to Those Who Dare to BecomeThere’s a reason Western Marxism... Continue Reading →
“Fight Alongside the People—and Die with the People”: Fidel Castro’s 1994 Havana Address and the Reassertion of Revolutionary Legitimacy
Weaponized Statecraft Series | In Commemoration of Fidel Castro’s Birthday By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 13, 2025 Part I. Revolutionary Presence in the Midst of Crisis “If rocks were being thrown and shots were being fired, I wanted to receive my share.” In the summer of 1994, as the so-called “Maleconazo” protests... Continue Reading →
“Let the Revolution Always Be Ready to Begin Again”: Fidel Castro’s 1965 Santa Clara Speech and the Strategy of Revolutionary Permanence
Weaponized Statecraft Series | In Commemoration of Fidel Castro's BirthdayBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 13, 2025Revolution is Not a Spectacle—It is a Verdict“There is something that is not seen in cement or lumber or in stone, and that is what is built among the people, the education received by the people, the... Continue Reading →
Exorcising the Ghost of Malcolm: Class Struggle, Colonial Liberation, and the Failure of Western Marxism
Ghosts in Our Blood exhumes the internationalist, anti-imperialist, and Grenadian roots of Malcolm X, smashing the museum glass of liberal iconography and Western Marxist distortion to return him to the world struggle that claimed him.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 12, 2025I. Bringing Malcolm Back to Earth — Out of the Museum, Away... Continue Reading →
Murder Incorporated: The Empire’s Kill List in Three Volumes
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria’s trilogy is a five-century autopsy of the United States — a counter-history that dissects the settler-colonial birth, imperialist adolescence, and technofascist present of the American project, demanding that readers turn knowledge into revolutionary weaponry. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 11, 2025 Framing a 500-Year Indictment With Murder... Continue Reading →
Chains at the Dawn: Slave Revolts as the First Modern Proletarian Uprisings
From the cane fields of São Tomé to the swamps of Virginia, the enslaved struck the first world-historic blows against capitalist-imperialism — long before the factory whistle summoned Europe’s “free” workers.By Pablo Katari | Weaponized Information | August 10, 2025I. The Plantation as the Foundry of Modern CapitalismPolitical economy, that hired prizefighter of capital, delights... Continue Reading →
“Blood in My Eye”: George Jackson, Prison War Communism, and the Scientific Weaponry of the Lumpen Vanguard
On the first day of Black August, we excavate George Jackson’s final manuscript—not to memorialize him, but to weaponize his theory of revolution behind bars, and his call for the liquidation of empire by its most discarded class. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 1, 2025 This System Has No Reformers—Only Gravediggers George... Continue Reading →
Seven Fronts of Liberation: The Bolivarian Revolution and the Global Struggle for Socialist Sovereignty
How Venezuela’s 7 Transformations Are Confronting Empire, Constructing Socialism, and Teaching the World to Fight By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information July 31, 2025 Why Venezuela Matters in the Age of Empire and Collapse At the dawn of the 21st century, when neoliberalism strutted across the globe declaring the end of history, one nation dared... Continue Reading →