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 →

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 →

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 →

Stalinism in a Siberian Province: Class War, Collectivization, and the Birth of a New Rural Order

A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of James Hughes’ Stalinism in a Russian Province: A Study of Collectivization and Dekulakization in Siberia By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 23, 2025 Where the Revolution Met Its Hardest Soil Siberia is where the myths melt, comrade. It's where the Western left’s soft, sentimental picture of socialism... 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 →

Factories Against the Lie: Robert C. Allen and the Economic Truth of the Soviet Revolution

How the Soviet Union shattered capitalism’s mythology and proved that planning—not profit—can build a world. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review Series — October Revolution Installment | Weaponized Information | October 2025 Factories Against the Lie: Reclaiming the Economic Truth of the Soviet Revolution When Robert C. Allen sat down to write From... Continue Reading →

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