Author, Authority, and Empire: How “Authoritarian” Became Political Science’s Favorite Weapon Against Mass Power

This essay is part of Weaponized Information’s larger project to forge a new discipline of political science—one that treats politics as the scientific study of power: how it is accumulated, organized, enforced, and resisted. In “Towards a New Political Science: Politics as the Science of Power”, we broke with procedural political science and its canon... Continue Reading →

The Revolution Remembered Through a Mirror: Trotsky Between History and Heresy

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 →

The Party That Wouldn’t Break: Kim Jong Un and the Dialectic of Socialist Permanence

At the 80th anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim Jong Un reasserts the moral and political grammar of a revolution that endures by self-correction, unity, and defiance—transforming siege into pedagogy, hardship into method, and permanence into proof of socialism’s vitality.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 11, 2025Pyongyang, October 10 — The... Continue Reading →

Weaponized Statecraft: The Civilizational Declaration — Putin’s 2025 Valdai Address and the Dialectics of Multipolarity

From reactive sovereignty to proactive world-making — how Russia’s Valdai doctrine signals the consolidation of the multipolar epochBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 8, 2025The End of Empire’s ScriptThe stage was set in Sochi, under the heavy October air that always seems to carry more than the weather — it carries history. President... Continue Reading →

Hold the Line: Listen Hard, Rectify Fast, Stay Red

Weaponized Statecraft Series | Mao at Lushan, 1959 In the storm of the Great Leap’s setbacks, Mao did not fold—he listened. At Lushan he turned mistakes into lessons, errors into curriculum, and criticism into a method of survival. He named two illnesses—touchiness and wavering—and prescribed two remedies: endurance and rectification. He defended the communes, corrected... Continue Reading →

Hankow 1958: Mao’s Checklist Against Bureaucratic Decay

From Chengtu’s questions to Hankow’s battlefield, Mao sharpened the class line, armed the masses with democracy, and struck at the overlord style that threatened to hollow out the revolution.Weaponized Statecraft Series | Mao in Hankow, 1958By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 14, 2025From Chengtu’s Questions to Hankow’s BattlefieldApril 1958, Hankow. Weeks after forcing... 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 →

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