Sutton replaces workers, soldiers, and soviets with bankers and boardrooms, turning revolution into elite theater. Trotsky’s travel becomes “proof” of sponsorship, as bureaucracy and wartime chaos are rebranded as capitalist command. Forged documents linger as atmosphere while the real record—bank nationalization, debt repudiation, and trade monopoly—buries the thesis. The book ends where history begins: capital... Continue Reading →
Gramsci Disarmed: How Empire Turned a Communist Strategist into a Cultural Mascot
A polemical reconstruction of Antonio Gramsci as a Leninist revolutionary whose theory of hegemony was forged to solve the problem of power under advanced capitalism—and how imperial academia captured, fragmented, and neutralized that theory to manage dissent rather than overthrow domination.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 22, 2025Gramsci in the Imperial Seminar RoomIn... Continue Reading →
Stalinism in a Siberian Province: Class War, Collectivization, and the Birth of a New Rural Order
A Weaponized Intellects Book Review of James Hughes’ Stalinism in a Russian Province: A Study of Collectivization and Dekulakization in Siberia By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | November 23, 2025 Where the Revolution Met Its Hardest Soil Siberia is where the myths melt, comrade. It's where the Western left’s soft, sentimental picture of socialism... Continue Reading →
Walking Through Fire: Stalin, Survival, and the Class War Inside the Soviet Revolution
A Weaponized Intellects review of The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939by J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov — a forensic excavation of how a besieged socialist project fought its enemies abroad, its contradictions within, and the limits of human endurance.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects — October Revolution... 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 →
The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: Europe’s Last Revolutionary or the First Post-Western Marxist?
A Weaponized Intellects review of Erik van Ree'sThe Political Thought of Joseph Stalin: A Study in Twentieth-Century Revolutionary Patriotism — exploring how van Ree’s attempt to reclaim Stalin for the Western tradition instead exposes the end of Europe’s monopoly on Marxism and the birth of a global, anti-imperialist modernity. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects... Continue Reading →
Lenin: The Immortal Science of Liberation
A revolutionary critique of David Shub’s Lenin: A Biography — exposing how even a hostile witness cannot conceal the brilliance of Lenin’s dialectical mind, his transformation of Marxism into a living science of revolution, and the continuity of his legacy through the socialist construction of the Soviet state. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book... 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 →
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 →
The October Revolution: A Third World Reading by Walter Rodney
“Revisiting October through Walter Rodney’s Third World lens, this review dismantles Western Marxist fatalism and reclaims the Revolution as the weapon of the oppressed.” By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review: October Revolution Series | October 25, 2025 October Is Not a Memory, It’s a MethodOne hundred and eight years after... Continue Reading →