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 →

The Revolution Remembered Through a Mirror: Trotsky Between History and Heresy

A militant reading of Trotsky’s classic that honors his eyewitness fire while exposing the seeds of Trotskyism and Western Marxism—reaffirming the Lenin–Stalin line: soviets as organs of power only through the disciplined vanguard, from dual power to October, from poetry to statecraft. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review: October Revolution... 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 →

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