By Tu'Che Kapone To analyze why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 Presidential eelection to Donald Trump is, at heart, an exercise in dissecting the pathology of a political system that rewards hollow ambition, sidesteps principle, and neglects the working masses. Harris’s defeat to a man who epitomizes America’s basest impulses—racism, militarism, and unbridled corporate greed—might... Continue Reading →
The Second Coming of MAGA and the Yankee-Cowboy-Digerati War of the 21st Century
The 2024 reelection of Donald Trump may look like a populist rebellion against the establishment, a victory for “real Americans” over the so-called “elites.” But look a little closer, and you’ll see it’s just the latest chapter in the saga of America’s fractured ruling class, an endless brawl of competing corporate factions cloaked in the... Continue Reading →
Framing Russia and China In Our Own Image and Likeness
Written By: Kapone The frequent claims coming out of Western media and government circles that Russia and China are driven by imperialist or expansionist ambitions are not just misguided—they are rooted in a long tradition of Eurocentrism, Orientalism, and even white supremacy. These narratives project the very traits of Western colonial history onto Russia and... Continue Reading →
The Coming Attack On Iran
According to Article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (N.P.T.), all signatory member nations possess the “inalienable right” to “develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination.” As a signatory nation, the Islamic Republic of Iran is entitled to this most basic right, just like any other nation.
Walking on Two Feet: The Maoist Model of Socialist Development
The rise of China over the last two decades has compelled some economists to consider it a model of development that other industrializing nations should follow. Those lacking a basic understanding of political economy often refer to China as a “socialist” or “communist” country, and therefore mistakenly associate China’s economic system with “socialism.”
The Birth of a Nation: White Supremacy and the Foundation of Amerika
By Prince Kapone It is widely believed that white supremacy is a racist ideology of hatred promoted by marginal extremist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan or the Aryan Nations. Often overlooked and neglected in this view are the structural inequalities that ensure the continued supremacy of whites over non-whites in all facets of social... Continue Reading →
The Dialectics of National Liberation
It is a paradox of third world nationalism that the nation itself was more or less forged by colonial partition and then later become a force of emancipation for the colonized. In this sense, the nation must be understood as both a product of colonialism and a form of resistance to it. Nationalism, then, in... Continue Reading →
Globalization: Inequality in the Global Plantation
By Prince Kapone The current crisis of neoliberal capitalism has given rise to much resistance across the world, from the Occupy Wall Street movement in the U.S. to the political revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. As capitalist regimes everywhere impose austerity measures on their populations, reducing the capitalist state to nothing more... Continue Reading →
Reflections On Orientalism
By Prince Kapone Western Europe became rich and powerful, in large part, by colonizing, exploiting, and otherwise subjugating the people and lands of the so-called “Orient.” Prior to the 1500’s, every region of the world was at a relatively equal level of development, with the West even being backwards in relation to the East. However, with the emergence of capitalism in... Continue Reading →
Trilateral Imperialism: The Cold War and the Contradictions of Decolonization
The Second World War had devastated the colonial empires of Western Europe, leaving the United States as the capitalist world’s undisputed superpower. At the same time, the war demolished the colonial system that had defined the imperialist era up until that point, giving rise to a new stage of imperialism called neo-colonialism.