"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
Black Marxism and the Colonial Blindspot Inside Western Marxism Cedric J. Robinson did not write Black Marxism to abandon Marxism, but to indict the version of it that emerged safely inside empire. By tracing capitalism’s formation through slavery, racial domination, and colonial war, Robinson forces historical materialism to confront what Western Marxism systematically erased. The... Continue Reading →
In The Political Economy of Growth, Paul A. Baran dismantles the myth that growth is neutral or benevolent, exposing it as a class project rooted in surplus extraction and imperial power. He shows how monopoly capitalism turns productivity into waste and development into stagnation, both at home and across the colonized world. Against liberal economics... Continue Reading →
A Weaponized Propaganda Excavation of Fortune’s polite history of capitalism — exposing how imperial conquest, plantation slavery, and state violence are laundered into an academic travelogue for the professional–managerial class. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information January 21, 2026 How Fortune Turns Empire into a Museum Exhibit The article under excavation—Nick Lichtenberg’s January 18, 2026... Continue Reading →
This Weaponized Intellects review of Capital, Volume III is the third strike in our front-to-back reconstruction of Marx’s trilogy. If you haven’t read the first two reviews, start there:Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation — Volume ICapital Never Rests: Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume II and the Circulation of Exploitation... 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 →
This review of Capital, Volume II is the second installment in our Weaponized Intellects reconstruction of Marx’s trilogy. If you haven’t read the first review—where we follow Marx from the commodity to surplus-value, machinery, accumulation, and the so-called primitive accumulation—start there: Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation . Time... Continue Reading →
In his 1891 Introduction to The Civil War in France, Frederick Engels reloaded the most dangerous weapon the working class has ever forged: the truth that the state must be smashed, not reformed. Drawing on the blood-soaked memory of the Paris Commune, Engels warned that the dictatorship of the proletariat is not a slogan but... Continue Reading →
In The Civil War in France, Karl Marx did not romanticize revolution—he studied it, dissected it, and returned its lessons to the working class as weapons. From the smashing of the bourgeois state to the early contours of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Paris Commune revealed the shape of worker power in embryo. This... Continue Reading →
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