"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
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 →
A Weaponized Intellects review of Erik van Ree'sThe Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth-Century Revolutionary Patriotism — exploring how van Ree’s attempt to reclaim Stalin for the Western tradition instead exposes the end of Europe’s monopoly on Marxism and the birth of a global, anti-imperialist modernity. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects... Continue Reading →
A revolutionary critique of David Shub’s Lenin: A Biography — exposing how even a hostile witness cannot conceal the brilliance of Lenin’s dialectical mind, his transformation of Marxism into a living science of revolution, and the continuity of his legacy through the socialist construction of the Soviet state. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book... Continue Reading →
Vincent Bevins exposes how Washington turned mass extermination into foreign policy — from Indonesia’s 1965 genocide to the neoliberal order that still governs our world. This review reads his work as both autopsy and warning: a history of how empire learned to kill revolutions and call it peace.Weaponized Intellects Booke Review | By Prince Kapone... Continue Reading →
Samir Amin’s October 1917: Revolution, A Century Later is both a commemoration and a battle cry — a lucid Marxist-Leninist reflection on the world-historic rupture of 1917 and the unfinished struggle it ignited. Written in the twilight of the neoliberal era, the book reasserts the global and anti-imperialist meaning of the October Revolution, reminding us... Continue Reading →
Weaponized Intellects Book Review: October Revolution Series | By: Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 1, 2025The Atlantic Furnace: Where Capital Was Born in ChainsBefore Marx could write of capital, it had to be born. And it was not born in Manchester or Birmingham, but in the furnaces of the Caribbean—on the sugar plantations... Continue Reading →
A militant reading of Trotsky’s classic that honors his eyewitness fire while exposing the seeds of Trotskyism and Western Marxism—reaffirming the Lenin–Stalin line: soviets as organs of power only through the disciplined vanguard, from dual power to October, from poetry to statecraft. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review: October Revolution... Continue Reading →
“Revisiting October through Walter Rodney’s Third World lens, this review dismantles Western Marxist fatalism and reclaims the Revolution as the weapon of the oppressed.” By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review: October Revolution Series | October 25, 2025 October Is Not a Memory, It’s a MethodOne hundred and eight years after... Continue Reading →
Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870–1929By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | Weaponized Information | October 18, 2025Introduction: Labor’s Long ShadowRudi Batzell, a historian of capitalism and labor at the University of Chicago, has written one of... Continue Reading →
This "Columbus Day," we bring you a special edition Weaponized Intellects Book Review that turns the holiday inside out with John Henrik Clarke’s Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust—a revolutionary autopsy of empire. Clarke tears apart the myth of “discovery,” exposing how Europe’s feudal decay and capitalist hunger fused into genocide, slavery, and global plunder.... Continue Reading →
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