Tag: race/class

One Colony, Two Ships: How Liberal History Splits What Capitalism Built

James Traub's exploration of America's dual origins through the Mayflower and the White Lion is dangerously simplistic. He perpetuates a narrative of moral dichotomy, ignoring the harsh reality that both journeys fueled a settler-capitalist machine built on land theft and enslavement. The framing minimizes Indigenous dispossession and reduces oppressed voices to mere historical subjects. This liberal attempt at reconciliation fails to confront the brutal interdependence between North and South, leaving unchallenged the systemic inequities rooted in conquest and exploitation. Rather than embracing a flawed myth of unity, America must confront its history to dismantle the ongoing consequences of its oppressive foundations.

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Cop City Is the Counterinsurgency Campus: How “Antifa” Became the New Name for the Old Domestic Enemy

The Guardian's coverage of Trump's "antifa" prosecutions highlights a covert escalation of systemic repression rather than the emergence of a new threat. While it depicts the federal indictment against Cop City protesters as a shocking maneuver, this is merely the latest play in a long history of state-sponsored violence rooted in colonialism, slavery, and counterinsurgency tactics. The narrative frames Trump as the villain while obscuring the entrenched architecture of oppression that transcends his administration. The real battle lies in organizing effective resistance, connecting various social justice movements, and building robust defense mechanisms amidst a climate poised for increasing militarization and legislative warfare against dissent.

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The Empire’s Cheapest Deputies: How Liberal Media Turns White-Worker Disillusionment Into Political Defeat

The Guardian correctly rejects the liberal fantasy that MAGA is merely “economic anxiety,” but it turns a crack in the settler bargain into a locked door. Trump 2.0 is not the grassroots program of white workers but the ruling-class recalibration of labor discipline, border terror, tariff nationalism, and imperial decline. The racial wage remains real,... Continue Reading →

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They Called It Ego: Jacobin, Chris Smalls, and the Policing of Black Anti-Imperialist Labor

Chris Smalls, once heralded as a labor hero, now finds himself a casualty of overblown ego in the eyes of Jacobin. Yet, this portrayal dangerously obscures a deeper truth: his evolution from solely confronting Amazon to advocating for Palestinian and Cuban solidarity reveals an unsettling fear among the respectable Left. They're comfortable with labor militancy as long as it remains contained and domesticated; once it branches into anti-imperialism, they recoil. Smalls symbolizes a challenge to the status quo, an unfiltered confrontation with empire that threatens to redefine labor politics as an international struggle. In essence, the fear of a Black worker embracing a global perspective exposes the fragile backbone of contemporary Leftist thought.

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The Colorblind Con Job: How the Supreme Court Makes Black Power Disappear

In a provocative dissection of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against Louisiana's majority-Black district, the article exposes a chilling truth: the very mechanisms meant to ensure voting rights are systematically undermined. NPR's portrayal of this as a mere legal setback pales in comparison to the deeper rot at the heart of American democracy, which has long grappled with the notion of Black political power. This ruling is emblematic of a historical pattern where rights are granted under duress, only to be stealthily reclaimed when they threaten the status quo. It’s not just about losing a voting bloc; it’s about the ongoing struggle for true representation in a system designed to contain it.

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Africa Against the World Market: Hosea Jaffe, Imperialism, and the Long Struggle for Liberation

A Weaponized Intellects review of A History of Africa that excavates Hosea Jaffe’s uncompromising analysis of colonialism, class formation, and imperial domination—situating his intervention within the liberation struggles of his time and assessing its enduring relevance for understanding Africa, the world system, and the unfinished project of revolutionary transformation today. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized... Continue Reading →

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You Can’t Bomb Your Way Out of Empire: The Colonial Contradiction, White Radicalism, and the Failure of the Weather Underground

A liberal memoir transforms a history of anti-imperialist rebellion into a story of family inheritance, masking the structural realities of empire and repression. Beneath that narrative lies a system defined by imperial war abroad and counterinsurgency at home, where dissent is managed, surveilled, and neutralized. The Weather Underground emerged from this contradiction, but its turn... Continue Reading →

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AP Reports the Crime, Not the Consequence: How Empire Acknowledges Slavery While Defending Its Spoils

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 →

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