Weaponized Statecraft Series | Mao at Lushan, 1959 In the storm of the Great Leap’s setbacks, Mao did not fold—he listened. At Lushan he turned mistakes into lessons, errors into curriculum, and criticism into a method of survival. He named two illnesses—touchiness and wavering—and prescribed two remedies: endurance and rectification. He defended the communes, corrected... Continue Reading →
Hankow 1958: Mao’s Checklist Against Bureaucratic Decay
From Chengtu’s questions to Hankow’s battlefield, Mao sharpened the class line, armed the masses with democracy, and struck at the overlord style that threatened to hollow out the revolution.Weaponized Statecraft Series | Mao in Hankow, 1958By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 14, 2025From Chengtu’s Questions to Hankow’s BattlefieldApril 1958, Hankow. Weeks after forcing... Continue Reading →
Fortress Empire and the American Pole
The Pentagon’s draft defense strategy is no retreat from global confrontation—it is the reassertion of hemispheric domination. Behind the language of “homeland security” lies Monroe Doctrine 2.0, technofascist consolidation at home, and the attempt to weld the Americas into a captive pole of power in a multipolar world.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September... Continue Reading →
The Parallel Technosphere: China’s Tech Sovereignty as Resistance and Power
Sanctions meant to strangle Beijing’s future are instead forging a multipolar technosphere, fracturing U.S. monopolies and opening space for the Global South. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 7, 2025 The Sanctions That Forged a Parallel World Reuters reported that in August 2023, Huawei unveiled the Mate 60 Pro. Inside was the Kirin... Continue Reading →
From Crony Capitalism to Technofascism: Why Newsom’s Jab at Trump Misses the Point
Gavin Newsom brands Trump the “leading nationalist and socialist of our time.” Democrats decry cronyism. Republicans shout America First. But behind the slogans, both parties run the same monopoly system: bailouts, subsidies, and surveillance—capitalism without its mask.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 3, 2025When Capitalism Calls Itself SocialistAt the end of August 2025,... Continue Reading →
Reparations Is Revolution: Omali Yeshitela’s Demolition of Western Marxism
Yeshitela’s Stolen Black Labor demolishes the myths of Western Marxism, proving that Black liberation is not a subset of class struggle—it is its center. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information August 24, 2025 The Colonial Contradiction Is the Class Contradiction This is not a book review. This is a political confrontation. Omali Yeshitela’s Stolen Black... Continue Reading →
Dismantling the Black Legend: Losurdo, Stalin, and the Western Marxist Betrayal of History
How imperial propaganda and Western Marxism conspired to weaponize the memory of the Soviet Union and disarm living revolutionsPrince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 23, 2025I. The Black Legend and the Class War Over HistoryThis is not an academic exercise in “reassessing Stalin.” It’s a guided demolition of one of the most successful ideological... Continue Reading →
When the Empire Chokes, the South Breathes
This essay was originally published on Monthly Review OnlineBRICS+ is contradictory, uneven, and fragile—but in its openings, the Global South carves space for sovereignty and struggle.By Prince KaponeAugust 2025Multipolarity Emerges from Crisis, Not ConsensusThe story they sell is that “order” was built by reasoned men in sensible suits. The story we live is different. Multipolarity... Continue Reading →
Becoming Human in the Ruins of Empire: James and Grace Lee Boggs Against Western Marxism
A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Centuryby James and Grace Lee Boggs. This classic exposes the dead-end of Western Marxism and calls us to remake humanity through struggle.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 18, 2025The Future Belongs to Those Who Dare to BecomeThere’s a reason Western Marxism... Continue Reading →
“Let the Revolution Always Be Ready to Begin Again”: Fidel Castro’s 1965 Santa Clara Speech and the Strategy of Revolutionary Permanence
Weaponized Statecraft Series | In Commemoration of Fidel Castro's BirthdayBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 13, 2025Revolution is Not a Spectacle—It is a Verdict“There is something that is not seen in cement or lumber or in stone, and that is what is built among the people, the education received by the people, the... Continue Reading →