This essay is a direct political intervention into the crisis of working-class consciousness inside a settler-colonial empire in decline. It argues that the anger animating the MAGA movement is real—rooted in decades of deindustrialization, wage stagnation, debt, farm foreclosure, and the slow collapse of social life—but that this anger has been deliberately misdirected by monopoly... Continue Reading →
When Empire Kidnaps and the Left Blinks: Alex Callinicos, Venezuela, and the Politics of Conditional Anti-Imperialism
In his January 6, 2026 article in Socialist Worker, Alex Callinicos condemns the U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president as a brutal assertion of hemispheric dominance, while simultaneously advancing a line that blames the Bolivarian process itself for its vulnerability. This essay takes Callinicos’ argument seriously—and then dismantles it—showing how a rhetoric of anti-imperialism can reproduce... Continue Reading →
Socialism of the 21st Century: Hugo Chavez on the Bolivarian Revolution and Socialism
Hugo Chávez’s notebook for militants: party-building, revolutionary ethics, and the commune as the material base of people’s powerEdited by Prince Kapone • January 4, 2026Introduction Socialism of the 21st Century is not a memoir, a slogan, or a museum piece. It is a field manual for a revolution under siege — a set of sharp,... Continue Reading →
When the Court Preaches Independence While Power Governs in Silence
Judicial authority is framed as neutral refuge amid political chaos. Emergency procedure quietly accelerates executive power at home and abroad. History and ritual are deployed to manage a growing crisis of legitimacy. Working people face governance without consent while being asked for faith.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 1, 2026A Warm Blanket Called... Continue Reading →
Gramsci Disarmed: How Empire Turned a Communist Strategist into a Cultural Mascot
A polemical reconstruction of Antonio Gramsci as a Leninist revolutionary whose theory of hegemony was forged to solve the problem of power under advanced capitalism—and how imperial academia captured, fragmented, and neutralized that theory to manage dissent rather than overthrow domination.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 22, 2025Gramsci in the Imperial Seminar RoomIn... Continue Reading →
Who Paid the Pipers? Empire’s Safe Marxism and the War on Revolutionary Consciousness
A Weaponized Intellects review of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? — exposing Western Marxism as an imperial product, tracing the institutional machinery that manufactures “harmless” radicalism, and reclaiming Marxism as an anti-imperialist weapon for the global working class and colonized nations. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information — Weaponized Intellects Book... Continue Reading →
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: How the United States Was Founded to Defend Slavery
Gerald Horne’s definitive indictment of the American founding — revealing 1776 not as a revolution for liberty, but as a pro-slavery uprising by a settler elite terrified of Black emancipation, Indigenous sovereignty, and the global currents of abolition reshaping the Atlantic world.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 7, 2025America Was Born to Stop... Continue Reading →
The War Inside the White Republic: Oglesby and the Making of America’s Technofascist Ruling Class
A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of The Yankee and Cowboy War — tracing how the white ruling class evolved from Atlanticist patricians and frontier militarists into the modern Cowboy–Yankee–Digerati triumvirate that governs the U.S. empire today. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 2025 Clandestine America and the Skeleton of White Power Carl Oglesby... Continue Reading →
The Inequality Gospel of the G20: When Empire Pretends to Repent
How the Managers of Global Capitalism Diagnose the Crisis They Created—and Offer Solutions That Protect Their Power By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 25, 2025 When the Arsonists Write the Handbook on Fire Let’s start with the obvious, comrades: there is something darkly comic about the G20 commissioning a grand report on global... Continue Reading →
Stalinism in a Siberian Province: Class War, Collectivization, and the Birth of a New Rural Order
A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of James Hughes’ Stalinism in a Russian Province: A Study of Collectivization and Dekulakization in Siberia By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 23, 2025 Where the Revolution Met Its Hardest Soil Siberia is where the myths melt, comrade. It's where the Western left’s soft, sentimental picture of socialism... Continue Reading →