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 →
Life, Terror, and the Making of Soviet Power: Liberal Revisionism, Western Marxism and Siege Socialism
A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of Robert W. Thurston’s Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934–1941By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review - October Revolution Series | November 22, 2025Entering the Battlefield of Soviet HistoryLet’s begin with a simple truth that Western academia has spent a century trying to bury: the meaning of the... Continue Reading →
Capitalism, Plutocracy, and the Struggle for Real Democracy
Why democracy cannot coexist with capitalism, and why socialism alone makes it possibleBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 23, 2025The Mirage of Democracy Under CapitalismThey tell us we live in a democracy. They wave ballots in our faces, hold up constitutions like sacred scripture, and remind us of the “freedom” to choose between... 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 →
Dismantling the Black Legend: Losurdo, Stalin, and the Western Marxist Betrayal of History
How imperial propaganda and Western Marxism conspired to weaponize the memory of the Soviet Union and disarm living revolutionsPrince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 23, 2025I. The Black Legend and the Class War Over HistoryThis is not an academic exercise in “reassessing Stalin.” It’s a guided demolition of one of the most successful ideological... Continue Reading →