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 →

When Empire Kidnaps and the Left Blinks: Alex Callinicos, Venezuela, and the Politics of Conditional Anti-Imperialism

In his January 6, 2026 article in Socialist Worker, Alex Callinicos condemns the U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president as a brutal assertion of hemispheric dominance, while simultaneously advancing a line that blames the Bolivarian process itself for its vulnerability. This essay takes Callinicos’ argument seriously—and then dismantles it—showing how a rhetoric of anti-imperialism can reproduce... 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 →

Gramsci Disarmed: How Empire Turned a Communist Strategist into a Cultural Mascot

A polemical reconstruction of Antonio Gramsci as a Leninist revolutionary whose theory of hegemony was forged to solve the problem of power under advanced capitalism—and how imperial academia captured, fragmented, and neutralized that theory to manage dissent rather than overthrow domination.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 22, 2025Gramsci in the Imperial Seminar RoomIn... Continue Reading →

Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus, Marx, and the Struggle Against Determinism in an Age of Imperial Decline

A Weaponized Intellects review of John Bellamy Foster’s Breaking the Bonds of Fate — recovering Epicurus as a foundational materialist, tracing Marxism’s insurgent struggle against determinism and inevitability, and reasserting historical agency against the politics of surrender in an age of imperial decline. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information — Weaponized Intellects Book Review |... Continue Reading →

Who Paid the Pipers? Empire’s Safe Marxism and the War on Revolutionary Consciousness

A Weaponized Intellects review of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? — exposing Western Marxism as an imperial product, tracing the institutional machinery that manufactures “harmless” radicalism, and reclaiming Marxism as an anti-imperialist weapon for the global working class and colonized nations. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information — Weaponized Intellects Book... Continue Reading →

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