A Weaponized Intellects review of The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov — a forensic excavation of how a besieged socialist project fought its enemies abroad, its contradictions within, and the limits of human endurance.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects — October Revolution... Continue Reading →
The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: Europe’s Last Revolutionary or the First Post-Western Marxist?
A Weaponized Intellects review of Erik van Ree'sThe Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth-Century Revolutionary Patriotism — exploring how van Ree’s attempt to reclaim Stalin for the Western tradition instead exposes the end of Europe’s monopoly on Marxism and the birth of a global, anti-imperialist modernity. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects... Continue Reading →
Dick Cheney: Death of a War Criminal
The architect of torture, endless war, and the U.S. surveillance state is gone — but the empire he built remains. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 4, 2025 Death of a Statesman, Survival of a System Dick Cheney died, and the newspapers called him a patriot. The television anchors tightened their faces into... Continue Reading →
Calm Is Not Surrender: Xi–Trump, Strategic Patience, and the Long War Against Empire
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 →
Science for Empire, Faith for the Base: The AP and the Crisis of Knowledge in a Dying Empire
How the Associated Press’ “anti-science” investigation conceals an imperial civil war over who controls knowledge—and how the global working class can reclaim it.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 23, 2025How AP Stages “Science Under Siege”The Associated Press wants you to know that science is under attack. It tells this story in the familiar... Continue Reading →
The Shadow That Built the World: Rudi Batzell and the Racial Foundations of Labor
Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870–1929By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | Weaponized Information | October 18, 2025Introduction: Labor’s Long ShadowRudi Batzell, a historian of capitalism and labor at the University of Chicago, has written one of... Continue Reading →
Forecasting the Funeral: Bloomberg, the IMF, and the Gospel of Managed Decay
As the International Monetary Fund blesses the numbers and Bloomberg writes the sermon, the empire counts its decline as growth—and calls the corpse of capitalism “resilient.”By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 2025The Gospel of Managed DeclineOn October 14, 2025, Bloomberg published “IMF Warns of Dim Outlook for World Economy Hit by Rolling Shocks”,... Continue Reading →
From Flank to Fulcrum: Türkiye, the Crisis of Atlanticism, and the Socialist Tendency of Multipolarity
How Türkiye’s break with the West signals not merely a geopolitical realignment but a civilizational reorientation — one that exposes the contradictions of global capitalism and opens the path toward a new socialist world order. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 12, 2025 The Cracks in the Atlantic Wall For seventy years, Türkiye... Continue Reading →
The Enemy From Within: Trump’s War on American Cities
How Politico launders militarism into common sense, and how the ruling class sharpens its counterinsurgency state under crisisBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 1, 2025The Theater of ObedienceOn September 30, 2025, Politico ran a piece by Irie Sentner and Paul McLeary under the title, “Trump, justifying domestic military action, tells Pentagon leaders to... 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 →