"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
Read the previous essays in this series:Silver Against the Dragon: China, the World Market, and the Long Prelude to the Opium War Primitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market The Heavenly Commune: Taiping Rebellion and the Spectre of Peasant Communism From the ashes of the... Continue Reading →
This was not a reset. It was not a détente. It was the empire asking for time, and a rising world civilization choosing not to rush. The United States performs strength to hide its decline. China exercises restraint because history is moving in its direction. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 1, 2025... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Read our previous essays in this series:Silver Against the Dragon: China, the World Market, and the Long Prelude to the Opium WarPrimitive Accumulation by Narcotic: The Opium Wars and the Forcible Integration of China into the World Market From opium-for-silver gunboat “trade” to a peasant commune that abolished rent and defied empire, the Taiping Rebellion... Continue Reading →
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