Wednesday, 1 July 2026 — Weaponised Information
Bhaskar Sunkara invokes the courage of revolutionary workers and colonized peoples while treating the administrative planning systems they built as failed formations whose defining mechanisms must be superseded. This polemic subjects his proposed market socialism to the same historical tests imposed upon the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and Vietnam, showing that worker-run firms, public banks, and competitive markets do not abolish planning, class conflict, imperial pressure, or the struggle over investment. The record reveals neither a flawless socialist past nor a neutral market future, but a continuing battle over who controls the state, finance, land, strategic property, social surplus, and the conditions of human life. Revolutionary history must be studied critically as the indispensable archive of socialism in power—not stripped for inspiring imagery while hypothetical models claim superiority from the safety of never having existed.
Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | June 17, 2026
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Gerard Sekoto (South Africa), Three School Girls, early 1940s.
The New Dark Age 