The Shadow That Built the World: Rudi Batzell and the Racial Foundations of Labor

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 →

The Enemy From Within: Trump’s War on American Cities

How Politico launders militarism into common sense, and how the ruling class sharpens its counterinsurgency state under crisisBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | October 1, 2025The Theater of ObedienceOn September 30, 2025, Politico ran a piece by Irie Sentner and Paul McLeary under the title, “Trump, justifying domestic military action, tells Pentagon leaders to... Continue Reading →

Chains at the Dawn: Slave Revolts as the First Modern Proletarian Uprisings

From the cane fields of São Tomé to the swamps of Virginia, the enslaved struck the first world-historic blows against capitalist-imperialism — long before the factory whistle summoned Europe’s “free” workers.By Pablo Katari | Weaponized Information | August 10, 2025I. The Plantation as the Foundry of Modern CapitalismPolitical economy, that hired prizefighter of capital, delights... Continue Reading →

Strike the Empire at Its Weakest Point: A Revolutionary Review of Racism and the Class Struggle by James Boggs

Originally published in 1970 at the height of Black radical insurgency, James Boggs’s Racism and the Class Struggle delivers a merciless indictment of American capitalism as a settler-colonial system sustained by the racial division of labor. Drawing from his own experience as a Black autoworker and Marxist theorist, Boggs exposes the limitations of white Marxism,... Continue Reading →

The People Will Not Wait: Colombia’s Labor Referendum and the Revolt Against Oligarchy

This isn’t a legal gamble—it’s a class insurgency. Petro’s referendum isn’t bypassing democracy. It’s invoking it, in the only language the oligarchy fears: mass participation backed by working-class power.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | June 12, 2025I. When the Ruling Class Cries “Unconstitutional”On June 11, 2025, AP News published a story that, at first... Continue Reading →

Wartime Deportations and the Illusion of Judicial Resistance

The Supreme Court temporarily stalled Trump's deportation plan, but this isn't democracy in action—it's a pause in a war against migrants and workers. MSNBC calls it constitutional conflict. We call it settler-colonial theater.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized InformationMay 16, 2025I. MSNBC’s Legal Theater: The Empire Negotiates Its Own RepressionLisa Rubin, MSNBC’s legal correspondent and former... Continue Reading →

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