From Mao’s seizure of sovereignty to Xi’s effort to discipline capital, China’s modern history is neither a fall from revolutionary purity nor a smooth ascent into capitalism, but a protracted socialist struggle through contradiction. Each phase of development generated new class forces, new dangers, and new strategic adjustments, as the Party-state sought to preserve political... Continue Reading →
Bernal vs. The Aryan Machine: How European Empire Whitened Greece and Called It Civilization
In this Weaponized Intellects book review of Black Athena (Vol. 1), we follow Martin Bernal’s argument that Greece was cut off from its Afroasiatic roots at the very moment Europe was rising to imperial power. We trace how the Ancient Model of Mediterranean entanglement was pushed aside and replaced by the Aryan Model, then cemented... Continue Reading →
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 →
The Pole and the Cage: Fortress America, Technofascism, and the Labor Regime of Imperial Decline
The U.S. economy is generating profits without integrating people into stable life. Domestic labor is being recalibrated through precarity, surveillance, and managed migration. Fortress America turns the hemisphere into a disciplined rear-base of corridors, minerals, and compliant labor. The American Pole and technofascism are one system—an empire tightening the enclosure at home and abroad.By: Prince... 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 →
Capitalism in a Glass Case: How Empire Is Rewritten as Curiosity
A Weaponized Propaganda Excavation of Fortune’s polite history of capitalism — exposing how imperial conquest, plantation slavery, and state violence are laundered into an academic travelogue for the professional–managerial class. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information January 21, 2026 How Fortune Turns Empire into a Museum Exhibit The article under excavation—Nick Lichtenberg’s January 18, 2026... Continue Reading →
Capital Unmasked: How Exploitation Disappears While Domination Deepens
This Weaponized Intellects review of Capital, Volume III is the third strike in our front-to-back reconstruction of Marx’s trilogy. If you haven’t read the first two reviews, start there:Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation — Volume ICapital Never Rests: Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume II and the Circulation of Exploitation... 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 →