"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
This Weaponized Intellects review of Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici excavates how capitalism emerged not as progress, but as a counter-revolution forged through land theft, colonial conquest, and the violent subjugation of women’s bodies. It traces the medieval struggles of peasants, workers, and heretics to show that another world was not only imagined—but... Continue Reading →
Janet Abu-Lughod's "Before European Hegemony" ruthlessly dismantles the myth that Europe rose to global prominence due to inherent superiority or brilliance. Instead, it reveals a pre-existing world economy crafted by diverse, thriving civilizations from which Europe, late to the game, benefited through exploitation and rupture. By tracing this narrative, Abu-Lughod forces us to confront uncomfortable truths: Europe did not create history; it emerged through the erosion of powerful systems created by others. History wasn’t predestined; it was violently reshaped.
Development is not a neutral path but a historical process forged through conquest, extraction, and domination. Underdevelopment is not a failure to advance, but the condition produced by integration into a world system structured by imperial power. As the crisis of global capitalism deepens and the space for sovereign maneuver widens yet destabilizes, nations are... Continue Reading →
JSTOR’s tidy little history lesson reveals something real, but only after liberal scholarship scrubs the auction block clean enough for polite readers. Beneath the archive sits a system that turned rape, forced birth, and hereditary bondage into law, credit, and capital. The real story is not bad science gone astray, but a slave order using... Continue Reading →
The Associated Press presents the UN resolution as a moment of moral recognition, but its reliance on official voices and diplomatic language reveals how power narrates history without disturbing itself. The material record shows that slavery’s wealth still structures the present, and that organized reparations movements—from Africa to the Caribbean to grassroots struggles—are confronting that... Continue Reading →
Harriet Tubman did not merely flee bondage; she attacked the economic foundations of slavery by organizing collective escape, disrupting the immobilization of Black labor, and later striking directly at Confederate infrastructure in war. Emerging from a regime that depended on the total control of Black women’s bodies, she transformed from exploited worker into disciplined strategist,... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Empire This essay is a polemical intervention into a recent Jacobin interview with NYU sociologist Vivek Chibber, published as a transcript of an episode of Confronting... Continue Reading →
From mercantile privateers to sanctioned seizures, how piracy has always been capitalism’s hidden engine—and why it is resurfacing in the age of U.S. imperial declineBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 12, 2025Pirates of the Caribbean, 2025: The Seizure That Exposed an Empire’s Old HungerAt dawn on December 11, 2025, the United States staged... Continue Reading →
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