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 →
Community or Command: China, the American Pole, and the Battle for Latin America
The Hemisphere at the Breaking Point There are moments when states stop improvising and start publishing doctrine. Not press statements, not campaign slogans, but documents meant to harden intentions into policy and turn instinct into structure. Late 2025 was one of those moments. Within weeks of each other, two texts appeared that quietly announced Latin... Continue Reading →
White Malice and the War on African Liberation
Susan Williams’ archival excavation of CIA counterrevolution reveals how U.S. neocolonialism strangled Pan-African socialism—and why the same imperial logic governs the world today By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | December 13, 2025 When Africa Tried to Unite and America Took It Personal Susan Williams opens White Malice in the... Continue Reading →
Life, Terror, and the Making of Soviet Power: Liberal Revisionism, Western Marxism and Siege Socialism
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 →
China’s “Year of Temptation”: How The Economist Manufactures Fear in an Age of Imperial Decline
A Weaponized Information excavation of Western propaganda, global power shifts, and the struggle for a just multipolar world.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 17, 2025Temptation as a Weapon: How the Economist Manufactures China’s “Hubris” The point of departure for this excavation is an article published by The Economist, “China will be tempted to... Continue Reading →
Factories Against the Lie: Robert C. Allen and the Economic Truth of the Soviet Revolution
How the Soviet Union shattered capitalism’s mythology and proved that planning—not profit—can build a world. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review Series — October Revolution Installment | Weaponized Information | October 2025 Factories Against the Lie: Reclaiming the Economic Truth of the Soviet Revolution When Robert C. Allen sat down to write From... Continue Reading →
October 1917: A Century Later — Samir Amin and the Return of the World Revolution
Samir Amin’s October 1917: Revolution, A Century Later is both a commemoration and a battle cry — a lucid Marxist-Leninist reflection on the world-historic rupture of 1917 and the unfinished struggle it ignited. Written in the twilight of the neoliberal era, the book reasserts the global and anti-imperialist meaning of the October Revolution, reminding us... Continue Reading →