Empire’s Favorite Lie: Michael Parenti, Anti-Communism, and the Moral Alibi of Capital

Anti-communism is not an opinion but an environment. The communist is demonized so empire can call itself innocent. Liberal reason disciplines dissent more effectively than repression. Vietnam exposes anti-communism as an ideology that requires bodies. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | Weaponized Information | January 28, 2026 I. When Anti-Communism Becomes the... Continue Reading →

Author, Authority, and Empire: How “Authoritarian” Became Political Science’s Favorite Weapon Against Mass Power

This essay is part of Weaponized Information’s larger project to forge a new discipline of political science—one that treats politics as the scientific study of power: how it is accumulated, organized, enforced, and resisted. In “Towards a New Political Science: Politics as the Science of Power”, we broke with procedural political science and its canon... Continue Reading →

Who Owns Venezuela?

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 Under Siege: Civil War, Degeneration, and the Fight to Keep Power in the Hands of the Masses

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 →

Strangled In The Cradle: Sanctions, Siege, and the Imperial War on Socialist Development

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 →

Who Paid the Pipers? Empire’s Safe Marxism and the War on Revolutionary Consciousness

A Weaponized Intellects review of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? — exposing Western Marxism as an imperial product, tracing the institutional machinery that manufactures “harmless” radicalism, and reclaiming Marxism as an anti-imperialist weapon for the global working class and colonized nations. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information — Weaponized Intellects Book... Continue Reading →

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