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 →
Walking in the Light of the Poor: Aristide, Liberation, and the Birth of a People
Weaponized Statecraft Series | Jean-Bertrand Aristide at St. Jean Bosco, 1988How a sermon in 1988 lit the fuse of Haiti’s democracy—and exposed the ruling class that would destroy it.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 21, 2025In the House of the Poor, A New Power Begins to SpeakBrothers, sisters, workers, and all who have... 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 →
Mao at Chengtu: Fighting Brain Rot, Forging Creative Revolution
In March 1958, weeks after issuing his Sixty Points on Working Methods in Nanning, Mao gathered Party leaders at Chengtu. If Nanning warned against bureaucratic drift in the wake of victory, Chengtu waged ideological war against dogmatism, empty boasting, and the paralysis of thought. Here Mao demanded investigation over imitation, mass critique over silence, and... Continue Reading →
The Monkey King and Chaos Under Heaven: Mao Zedong’s Letter to Jiang Qing (1966)
Weaponized Statecraft Series | Mao Zedong’s Letter to Jiang Qing, July 1966By Prince Kapone | Weaponized InformationSeptember 5, 2025Cave, Clouds, and the Coming Storm July 1966. Mao Zedong isn’t on some retreat to rest his bones; he’s holed up “in a cave in the West,” scribbling, reading, watching. From there he moves to the “land... 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 →