Tag: revolutionary-nationalism

The Market Was Born with a Gun: Colonial Plunder, Neoliberal Rule, and the Worker-Peasant Road Beyond Capital

Utsa and Prabhat Patnaik’s groundbreaking analysis dismantles the myth that capitalism flourished independently within Europe, revealing a system intricately linked to colonial exploitation. They illustrate how colonialism not only financed European industrial growth but also perpetuated poverty and dependency in colonized nations. The authors articulate that capitalism's survival hinged on subjugating external economies. With the unraveling of colonial structures leading to depression and famine, they propose a radical rethinking of revolutionary potential through a worker-peasant alliance, emphasizing organized power as essential to dismantling capital's dominance. Ultimately, their work challenges the notion of capitalism's self-sufficiency, exposing its reliance on imperial mechanisms for survival.

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The Road, the Rifle and the Rice Field: Ibrahim Traoré’s War Against the Machinery of Dependence

Ibrahim Traoré’s speech is more than a declaration of national resolve. It is a sustained confrontation with the machinery of African dependency: roads promised but never built, minerals exported without transformation, imported goods replacing productive capacity, universities producing credentials instead of machines, and local elites profiting from national weakness. Through the recurring question—“Are we cursed?”—Traoré rejects racial fatalism and insists that Africa’s condition has a history, a structure and beneficiaries. This intervention excavates the speech’s strongest contradictions while asking whether state-led sovereignty can become genuine popular power rather than another project administered above the people.

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Un-American by Choice: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Revolution Liberal Memory Could Not Bury

For generations, the American academy celebrated W.E.B. Du Bois while burying the revolutionary conclusions that defined the final decades of his life. In this Weaponized Intellects review of Bill V. Mullen's Un-American, we excavate the real Du Bois: communist, anti-imperialist, Pan-African internationalist and unapologetic ally of socialist revolution. Mullen powerfully restores Du Bois to the global struggle against capitalism and colonialism, yet retreats into familiar anti-Stalinist assumptions when revolution becomes embodied in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. The result is both an indispensable recovery and a revealing ideological battleground over the meaning of socialism, state power and the unfinished project of world revolution.

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Beyond Hegemony, Beyond Illusion: Samir Amin, Multipolarity, and the Unfinished Road to Socialism

What happens when one of the twentieth century's greatest Marxist theorists is tested against the world that emerged after unipolarity began to fracture? This Weaponized Intellects review excavates Samir Amin's Beyond US Hegemony? as both a product of its historical moment and a living revolutionary framework, measuring its arguments against China's socialist transition, Russia's anti-hegemonic resurgence, the rise of BRICS, and Amin's own later theoretical development. The result is neither celebration nor dismissal, but a critical reconstruction that distinguishes multipolarity from socialism and argues that only organized popular power can transform the decline of empire into genuine human emancipation.

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The National Question Under Siege: How the New Cold War Weaponizes China’s Ethnic Contradictions

The New York Times frames China’s ethnic unity law as a blatant act of repression against minorities, echoing a Cold War moral narrative. Yet, this interpretation overlooks the historical and political complexities faced by a socialist state trying to maintain unity amidst the legacies of imperialism and foreign interference. The law seeks to counteract separatism and assert national sovereignty, but critics argue it risks bureaucratic assimilation of diverse ethnic identities. Ultimately, the struggle over the national question lies not in simplistic moral judgments, but in addressing imperialism's manipulative strategies while safeguarding genuine autonomy and cultural integrity within China's socialist framework.

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Same Boss, New Contract: USMCA and the Empire’s Grip on Mexico and Canada

NBC's portrayal of Trump's refusal to renew the USMCA is more than a mere disruption in trade; it’s a calculated move to establish an iron grip over North America. The article frames this as instability, ignoring the deeper narrative of imperial ambition where trade agreements become tools for coercion. The U.S. isn't retreating; it's reconfiguring the continent, tightening control over Mexico and Canada while excluding China from the fold. Workers from all sides suffer under this new order while corporate interests thrive unchallenged. Ultimately, this is not a story of chaos but of empire reshaping subjugation—inviting you to witness the birth of Fortress America instead of its decay.

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Socialism Without Revolution: Jacobin’s Market Fantasy Against the Socialist World

Bhaskar Sunkara’s market socialism is a bold yet flawed vision that naively overlooks the burdens of imperialism. He critiques past socialist models while proposing that worker-run firms can flourish within a system still embedded in capitalist exploitation. However, the reality is that these worker enterprises would still rely on the global hierarchy that upholds imperial advantages. A true socialist awakening must reject these inherited structures and demands an anti-imperialist framework instead. Without confronting the realities of colonial legacies and ensuring reparative relations, Sunkara’s proposal risks socializing the benefits of imperialism while maintaining its oppressive mechanisms intact.

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From the Amerikan Dream to the Amerikan Nightmare: Malcolm X, Revolution and the New Human Being

Malcolm X reshaped my understanding of America’s racial dynamics, revealing it not as a flawed democracy but as a colonial project steeped in oppression. His teachings led me beyond the shallow understanding of leftist politics to a deeper comprehension of the intertwined struggles against imperialism and capitalism. Each encounter with his work pushed me toward recognizing humanity in the oppressed and the global context of their struggles. Through Malcolm, I learned that true liberation requires a conscious break from inherited identities tied to empire. His evolution mirrors a broader human struggle, challenging us to embrace revolutionary love as an act of transformation, not mere rhetoric.

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Failure According to Whom?: Rewriting the Metrics of Socialism

The pervasive claim that socialism has "failed" is an ideological construct rather than a factual statement. A closer analysis reveals that socialist systems, from the Soviet Union to China, achieved measurable gains in education, health, and economic development under dire conditions. This narrative of failure is not supported by historical evidence but rather is a product of a century-long ideological war against socialism. Capitalism, meanwhile, perpetuates crises, inequality, and social fragmentation, failing to meet human needs. The real question is not why socialism fails, but how it has transformed societies when confronted with immense challenges, challenging the ruling narrative that defines success so narrowly.

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Settlers in the Wreckage: J. Sakai, Technofascism, and the War for the Future

J. Sakai’s interviews force the U.S. left to confront the settler-colonial foundations it has spent generations avoiding. His analysis exposes the myth of the revolutionary white proletariat, the collapse of liberal illusions, and the expansion of war into every domain of life. But Weaponized Information pushes further, grounding his insights in monopoly finance capital, technofascism,... Continue Reading →

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