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 →

Message to MAGA: Wall Street’s Fake Rebellion and the War on the Working Class

This essay is a direct political intervention into the crisis of working-class consciousness inside a settler-colonial empire in decline. It argues that the anger animating the MAGA movement is real—rooted in decades of deindustrialization, wage stagnation, debt, farm foreclosure, and the slow collapse of social life—but that this anger has been deliberately misdirected by monopoly... Continue Reading →

Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism

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 →

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: How the United States Was Founded to Defend Slavery

Gerald Horne’s definitive indictment of the American founding — revealing 1776 not as a revolution for liberty, but as a pro-slavery uprising by a settler elite terrified of Black emancipation, Indigenous sovereignty, and the global currents of abolition reshaping the Atlantic world.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 7, 2025America Was Born to Stop... Continue Reading →

The Shadow That Built the World: Rudi Batzell and the Racial Foundations of Labor

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 →

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