"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
Chicago is shown here not as a northern refuge of progress, but as what it actually was and remains: an internal colony where segregation, poverty, and police occupation shaped Fred Hampton into a revolutionary Marxist with no illusions about the system he was up against. From those conditions came a politics willing to go where... Continue Reading →
Born free in a slave republic, Campbell became an architect of Black self-rule after emancipation. On Georgia’s Sea Islands, freedpeople built land-based democracy before federal power restored white property. Rising to state leadership, he was criminalized as Reconstruction turned into counterrevolution. His life reveals Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution over land, labor, and power. Prince... 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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Hemispheric Recolonization, Multipolar Sovereignty, and the Coming U.S. Confrontation with ChinaBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 16, 2025When the Empire Can’t Rule the Planet, It Builds a FortressEvery empire has its favorite lie. For the United States, the lie was that history ended in 1991 and the world would forever orbit around Washington... Continue Reading →
A forensic indictment of Zionism as a modern settler project—born in Europe, built on Palestinian land, and sustained by U.S. imperial power. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 18, 2025 A People, a Faith, and a Myth Recast For nearly two millennia after the fall of the Second Temple, Judaism existed not as... Continue Reading →
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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