The New Dark Age

Bill V. Mullen tears W.E.B. Du Bois away from the respectable American mythology that embalmed a communist revolutionary as a harmless prophet of racial reconciliation. His recovery reveals the color line as a world system binding slavery, colonial plunder, imperial war and capitalist exploitation—and restores the diasporic international that organized resistance across those fronts. Yet the book retreats when revolution passes from rebellion into socialist state power, treating the Soviet and Chinese experiences through an anti-Stalinist framework that too often separates emancipation from the institutions required to defend and construct it. What remains is an indispensable revolutionary recovery whose strongest evidence points beyond its weakest conclusions, toward an internationalism capable of defending socialist construction without surrendering criticism or popular power.

By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Weaponized Intellects Book Review | July 19, 2026

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