Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870–1929By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | Weaponized Information | October 18, 2025Introduction: Labor’s Long ShadowRudi Batzell, a historian of capitalism and labor at the University of Chicago, has written one of... Continue Reading →
Che Guevara: Socialist Revolution and the Birth of the New Human Being
The Living Fire of Theory: Che’s Marxism Against the Machinery of Death By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 9, 2025 History rarely pauses for philosophers, but it listens when one of them picks up a rifle. When Che Guevara crossed from Argentina into the jungles of Cuba, he carried no blueprint for socialism... Continue Reading →
Assata Shakur and Charlie Kirk: Two Martyrs, Two Americas
One died free in exile, a symbol of liberation; the other died at home, a symbol of reaction. Their lives and deaths mirror the split soul of America, caught between empire and freedom.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 26, 2025Death as a Mirror of EmpireIn September 2025, two deaths shook the American political... Continue Reading →
Assata Shakur: Autobiography of Liberation, Indictment of Empire
A 21-Gun Salute to a Revolutionary Who Died Free and Unbroken By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects | September 26, 2025 Assata in the Crosshairs They called her a fugitive, a terrorist, a threat to the republic. The newspapers splashed her face across their pages like a wanted poster, as if she were a bandit... Continue Reading →
Race/Class 101: The Dialectics of Nation, Class Struggle and Revolutionary Rupture in the United States
From genocide and slavery to neoliberal globalization and Trump 2.0, the United States has never been a multiracial democracy—it has been a settler empire. To fight it demands clarity: nation and class cannot be separated. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 8, 2025PrefaceThis essay is a preliminary sketch of what I have spent... Continue Reading →
The Death Sentence of Western Marxism: Jalil Muntaqim’s We Are Our Own Liberators
A Weaponized Intellects book review of We Are Our Own Liberators by revolutionary soldier Jalil Muntaqim, who spent 49 years captive in the belly of the beast as a prisoner of war.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 20, 2025The Man, the Movement, the SentenceJalil Muntaqim wasn’t born with that name. The settler state... Continue Reading →
Becoming Human in the Ruins of Empire: James and Grace Lee Boggs Against Western Marxism
A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Centuryby James and Grace Lee Boggs. This classic exposes the dead-end of Western Marxism and calls us to remake humanity through struggle.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 18, 2025The Future Belongs to Those Who Dare to BecomeThere’s a reason Western Marxism... Continue Reading →
“Walter Rodney Speaks”: A Revolutionary Autopsy of the Guerilla Intellectual (Part 2 of 2)
Missed Part I? Read the first installment of our review series: “Walter Rodney Speaks”: A Revolutionary Autopsy of the Guerilla Intellectual (Part 1 of 2) Book Review Series | Part II: The Science of Liberation in the Age of TechnofascismBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | June 19, 2025Introduction to Part II: Revolutionary Clarity in... Continue Reading →
Scapegoating Solidarity: U.S. War on Cuba’s Doctors
Why Washington Labels Volunteer Healers “Forced Labor” — and How We Counter the SmearBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | June 18, 2025Scapegoating Solidarity: The AP Turns Cuban Doctors into a Crime Scene When Edith M. Lederer ― a UN press-room fixture since Vietnam ― files a wire, the voice of Uncle Sam still echoes... Continue Reading →
“Walter Rodney Speaks”: A Revolutionary Autopsy of the Guerilla Intellectual (Part 1 of 2)
Book Review Series | Part I: The Making of a Guerilla IntellectualBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | June 14, 2025I. Tailor’s Son in a Tailored World: The Fabric of a Colonial UpbringingWalter Rodney didn’t come from Harvard. He came from Bent Street—Guyana. From the home of a self-employed tailor and a seamstress. And in... Continue Reading →