A formerly enslaved woman who helped turn memory of bondage into a national economic claim. Her movement proved reparations was a working-class demand for stolen labor, not a plea for charity. The federal government criminalized her because compensation threatened the racial economic order. Her legacy links Black liberation to the broader struggle over wealth, power,... Continue Reading →
Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Power, Rupture, and the Discipline of Governing Under Siege
A Weaponized Intellects excavation of Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks to Marta Harnecker, tracing how popular rupture collides with institutions, empire, class power, and the unfinished task of building a revolution that can survive its own victories By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 18, 2026 A Revolution That Refuses the Script... Continue Reading →
Hold the Line: Listen Hard, Rectify Fast, Stay Red
Weaponized Statecraft Series | Mao at Lushan, 1959 In the storm of the Great Leap’s setbacks, Mao did not fold—he listened. At Lushan he turned mistakes into lessons, errors into curriculum, and criticism into a method of survival. He named two illnesses—touchiness and wavering—and prescribed two remedies: endurance and rectification. He defended the communes, corrected... Continue Reading →