"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 →
From Talented Tenth Idealism to Communist Internationalism, Du Bois’s Life Exposes the Color Line as a Global System, White Labor’s Imperial Bargain, Reconstruction as Crushed Revolution, and the Unfinished Struggle Against Colonial Capitalism.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters Series | February 11, 2026I. A Child of Emancipation, Raised in the Shadow... Continue Reading →
This essay is a direct political intervention into the crisis of working-class consciousness inside a settler-colonial empire in decline. It argues that the anger animating the MAGA movement is real—rooted in decades of deindustrialization, wage stagnation, debt, farm foreclosure, and the slow collapse of social life—but that this anger has been deliberately misdirected by monopoly... Continue Reading →
Gerald Horne’s definitive indictment of the American founding — revealing 1776 not as a revolution for liberty, but as a pro-slavery uprising by a settler elite terrified of Black emancipation, Indigenous sovereignty, and the global currents of abolition reshaping the Atlantic world.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 7, 2025America Was Born to Stop... Continue Reading →
Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global Inequality, Racial Boundaries, and the Rise of Unions in American and British Capitalism, 1870–1929By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | Weaponized Information | October 18, 2025Introduction: Labor’s Long ShadowRudi Batzell, a historian of capitalism and labor at the University of Chicago, has written one of... Continue Reading →
How the AFL-CIO Became the Empire’s Labor Army and Why Revolutionary Labor in the U.S. Requires Rupture With the Settler BargainBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 3, 2025Imperial Unions, Imperial WagesJeff Schuhrke’s Blue-Collar Empire lifts the lid on a history the U.S. labor establishment would prefer remain buried: the story of the AFL-CIO... Continue Reading →
One died free in exile, a symbol of liberation; the other died at home, a symbol of reaction. Their lives and deaths mirror the split soul of America, caught between empire and freedom.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 26, 2025Death as a Mirror of EmpireIn September 2025, two deaths shook the American political... Continue Reading →
From genocide and slavery to neoliberal globalization and Trump 2.0, the United States has never been a multiracial democracy—it has been a settler empire. To fight it demands clarity: nation and class cannot be separated. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 8, 2025PrefaceThis essay is a preliminary sketch of what I have spent... Continue Reading →
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