"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
Fascism is not an aberration but a rational instrument deployed when capital loses democratic control. Socialist revolutions expanded freedom for the many and were met with siege, sabotage, and counterrevolution. The restoration of capitalism in the East revealed the market as a system of plunder, repression, and social decay. Anti-communism and class denial function as... Continue Reading →
CNN wants the reader to see a new partnership forming in Caracas: a phone call, oil talk, CIA photo-ops, deportations back on schedule. But under siege, smiles are signals—and “warming relations” often means the empire believes it has found a manager, not a partner. We excavate the story’s framing and then trace the concrete leverage... Continue Reading →
A Weaponized Intellects excavation of Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo Chávez Talks to Marta Harnecker, tracing how popular rupture collides with institutions, empire, class power, and the unfinished task of building a revolution that can survive its own victories By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | January 18, 2026 A Revolution That Refuses the Script... Continue Reading →
In his January 6, 2026 article in Socialist Worker, Alex Callinicos condemns the U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president as a brutal assertion of hemispheric dominance, while simultaneously advancing a line that blames the Bolivarian process itself for its vulnerability. This essay takes Callinicos’ argument seriously—and then dismantles it—showing how a rhetoric of anti-imperialism can reproduce... Continue Reading →
Trump’s claim that Venezuela “stole” U.S. oil is not a gaffe or exaggeration—it is an imperial verdict. This essay dismantles that claim by tracing the conflict over Venezuela’s resources through international law, the neoliberal wreckage of the pre-Chávez era, the Bolivarian rupture, Maduro’s Plan de la Patria, and María Corina Machado’s restoration blueprint. What emerges... Continue Reading →
Socialism has never developed in peace. Forced to build under permanent imperial encirclement, every revolution has faced the same central contradiction: how to defend power without allowing administration to replace politics and coercion to substitute for mass legitimacy. Tracing this struggle from 1917 through Mao and into post-Mao China, this essay argues that siege is... Continue Reading →
How imperialism strangled socialist revolutions through sanctions, blockades, and economic warfare—and why socialism was never judged on its own terms, but only under siege. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 24, 2025The Alibi They Hand You When They Don’t Want You to Ask Who’s Holding the Knife“Socialism never worked anywhere.” You’ve heard it... Continue Reading →
A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of Robert W. Thurston’s Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934–1941By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review - October Revolution Series | November 22, 2025Entering the Battlefield of Soviet HistoryLet’s begin with a simple truth that Western academia has spent a century trying to bury: the meaning of the... Continue Reading →
A Weaponized Intellects review of The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov — a forensic excavation of how a besieged socialist project fought its enemies abroad, its contradictions within, and the limits of human endurance.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects — October Revolution... Continue Reading →
A Weaponized Intellects review of Erik van Ree'sThe Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth-Century Revolutionary Patriotism — exploring how van Ree’s attempt to reclaim Stalin for the Western tradition instead exposes the end of Europe’s monopoly on Marxism and the birth of a global, anti-imperialist modernity. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects... Continue Reading →
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