Vijay Prashad sees the imperial fist tightening while Özcan Buze sees the national capitals and state rivalries still clawing inside it; this intervention reconstructs the contradictory unity neither perspective can explain alone. The American Pole is emerging as the harder form of U.S.-led collective imperialism, with Fortress America securing its productive, financial, technological and military rear while hyper-imperialism punishes those who refuse incorporation. Yet the multipolar transition remains an opening rather than a finished order: national liberation can be captured, sovereignty can belong to the bourgeoisie, and new development corridors can carry either emancipation or extraction toward the same old port. Against an empire that organizes rivalry abroad and hunger at home, the left must unite sovereign development, worker power, national liberation and social ownership into a force capable not merely of surviving the fortress, but of dismantling the machinery that built it.
By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | August 4, 2026
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