The ancient Chinese concept of the Mandate of Heaven was never superstition — it was a theory of political legitimacy rooted in material life, popular welfare, and historical judgment. This essay revives that framework as a weapon of analysis, comparing a United States empire that rules through coercion, sanctions, and decline management with a Chinese... Continue Reading →
Markets, Mandarins, and the Managed Decline of Empire
Experts speak so capital can rule without consent. Facts reveal an imperial system under strain, not a neutral economy at risk. Monetary discipline, tariffs, and militarization form a single strategy of control. The task before the people is organization, not faith in forecasters.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized InformationJanuary 6, 2026How the Economy Is Ventriloquized Through... Continue Reading →
Capital Never Rests: Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume II and the Circulation of Exploitation
This review of Capital, Volume II is the second installment in our Weaponized Intellects reconstruction of Marx’s trilogy. If you haven’t read the first review—where we follow Marx from the commodity to surplus-value, machinery, accumulation, and the so-called primitive accumulation—start there: Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation . Time... Continue Reading →
The Quiet Return of the Gun: Japan, the United States, and the Quiet Normalization of War
An Associated Press report presents Japan’s remilitarization as reluctant self-defense rather than a political choice shaped by power. Beneath the calm language, constitutional erosion and alliance discipline are reframed as common sense. Placed in historical and geopolitical context, Japan’s military buildup appears as a reassignment of roles within a U.S.-led imperial order in crisis. Against... Continue Reading →
Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation
A Weaponized Intellects reconstruction of Capital that follows Marx’s dialectical knife from the commodity to the state, exposing capitalism not as a flawed system in need of reform, but as a coherent social order built on abstraction, dispossession, and organized domination—and reclaiming Marx’s method as a weapon for the global working class and colonized nations.... Continue Reading →
Socialism Under Siege: Civil War, Degeneration, and the Fight to Keep Power in the Hands of the Masses
Socialism has never developed in peace. Forced to build under permanent imperial encirclement, every revolution has faced the same central contradiction: how to defend power without allowing administration to replace politics and coercion to substitute for mass legitimacy. Tracing this struggle from 1917 through Mao and into post-Mao China, this essay argues that siege is... Continue Reading →
THE EMPIRE IS PANICKING: Thailand Moves, and Washington Hears Footsteps
The Economist dresses up imperial anxiety as neutral reporting, hiding a Cold War script beneath polite prose. The facts it selects—and the history it omits—reveal a region reshaped by U.S. decline and Asian integration. Thailand’s maneuvers only make sense when read through the crisis of imperialism and the recalibration of a multipolar world. Global movements... 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 →
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 →
Russia Without Putin: A Corrective Without a Compass
How Tony Wood’s corrective to Western liberal delusion stops short of anti-imperialist clarity — and what it reveals about the NATO Left’s crisis of thought. Weaponized Intellects Book Review Series | By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 19, 2025 “Too much attention has been paid to the man, and not enough to the... Continue Reading →