Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism and the Colonial Blindspot Inside Western Marxism

Black Marxism and the Colonial Blindspot Inside Western Marxism Cedric J. Robinson did not write Black Marxism to abandon Marxism, but to indict the version of it that emerged safely inside empire. By tracing capitalism’s formation through slavery, racial domination, and colonial war, Robinson forces historical materialism to confront what Western Marxism systematically erased. The... Continue Reading →

Growth Without Development: How Capitalism Produces Abundance, Manufactures Poverty, and Calls It Progress

In The Political Economy of Growth, Paul A. Baran dismantles the myth that growth is neutral or benevolent, exposing it as a class project rooted in surplus extraction and imperial power. He shows how monopoly capitalism turns productivity into waste and development into stagnation, both at home and across the colonized world. Against liberal economics... Continue Reading →

Author, Authority, and Empire: How “Authoritarian” Became Political Science’s Favorite Weapon Against Mass Power

This essay is part of Weaponized Information’s larger project to forge a new discipline of political science—one that treats politics as the scientific study of power: how it is accumulated, organized, enforced, and resisted. In “Towards a New Political Science: Politics as the Science of Power”, we broke with procedural political science and its canon... Continue Reading →

History as Weapon: Walter Rodney and the Discipline of Revolutionary Marxism

A Weaponized Intellects reconstruction of A History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881–1905 that treats Rodney’s most mature historical materialist work not as scholarship for contemplation, but as theory forged for organization, struggle, and socialist revolution. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | January 23, 2026A Book Written to Be... 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 →

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