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Adam Smith has been kidnapped.

For two centuries, the priests of capitalism have dragged his name through every think tank, business school, campaign speech, and billionaire sermon as if "The Wealth of Nations" were a holy book of greed, competition, and "small government."

But the real Smith is more dangerous than the cartoon they sell.

Smith begins with labor.
He admits the worker once "enjoyed the whole produce."
He names "the appropriation of land" and "the accumulation of stock."
He exposes masters who are "always and everywhere" combined against wages.
He attacks monopoly.
He requires the state.
He warns that debt makes war easier and more hidden.

That is not neoliberal scripture.

That is a bourgeois confession.

My new Weaponized Intellects review reads "The Wealth of Nations" against itself - not as an actual description of historical capitalism, but as capitalism’s clean philosophical alibi: labor without power, property without theft, exchange without dispossession, national wealth without colonies, plantations, enclosures, slave ships, debt ledgers, and armed states.

Smith gave capitalism one of its most elegant self-portraits.

Historical materialism returns that portrait to the crime scene.

This review is not a book report. It is a cross-examination.

Capitalism after the robbery.

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Capitalism After the Robbery: Adam Smith, the Wealth of Nations, and the Clean Alibi of Bourgeois Political Economy Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is a twisted tale masquerading as a free-market manifesto, one that defies the naive faith bestowed upon it by neoliberals. It exposes capitalism’s fundamen…

The Associated Press spins Venezuela’s crisis as a mere internal drama of political division, subtly masking the U.S. military’s pivotal role in toppling Maduro. Behind the façade of Chavismo's weakening loyalties lies imperial coercion—an acting government subservient to Washington. The narrative portrays disarray but downplays U.S. oversight of oil sales and military drills, normalizing foreign occupation while disguising it as internal strife. By framing this as a crisis of governance, the AP shifts attention from the imperial machinery at work, thereby sidestepping critical questions of sovereignty and resistance. The real story is not betrayal; it's exploitation under the guise of reform.

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Malcolm X did not teach me to hate myself or my fellow whites. Malcolm X taught me to hate empire.

He taught me that America was never simply a “country with racial problems,” but a settler-colonial project built through Indigenous dispossession, African slavery, Chicano conquest, prisons, propaganda, and imperial violence across the planet. He forced me to confront the uncomfortable truth that my own Euro-American experience stood in a fundamentally different historical relationship to this society than the colonized peoples trapped beneath it.

This essay is deeply personal because it traces the long political road from the Amerikan Dream to the Amerikan Nightmare — from identifying with the mythology of white America to identifying with the liberation struggles of humanity itself.

Che Guevara once said that the true revolutionary is guided by love for humanity. Not abstract humanity. Real humanity. The exploited. The colonized. The bombed. The imprisoned. The forgotten. The people carrying this dying empire on their backs every single day.

This is my tribute to Malcolm X: not as an icon frozen in history, but as one of the greatest revolutionary educators the empire ever produced by accident.

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From the Amerikan Dream to the Amerikan Nightmare: Malcolm X, Revolution and the New Human Being Malcolm X reshaped my understanding of America’s racial dynamics, revealing it not as a flawed democracy but as a colonial project steeped in oppression. His teachings led me beyond the shallow und…