Divide Between Town and Country.  Large Landowners and Unions. 11 28 2025 

Much like eastern Europe, America is in a period of reaction.  The bourgeoisie has leveraged the rural people, some of whom are workers in large scale agriculture, to people who believe they are small businessmen growing on farms as capitalists.

The latter group,  not exactly small farmers but also not large scale agriculture, are sort of becoming a petty bourgeoisie, who sell their products as commodities to the merchants.  They may have a few hands, but often are still labouring.  

These people supported Trump.  In so doing, they also supported the large scale production of food,  even though they have seen many of their counterparts lose their farms, only to have their lands subsumed by large landowners.  

They feel it is not simply the large scale agriculture bourgeois who have spared them, probably due to their political bent, that has given them prosperity, and allowed them to keep farming.  Although they are clearly the chosen ones, they feel it has been their good business sense that  has kept the farm.  This is why they support Trump, even though economically they are on shaky ground; a few bad harvests and that’s it, bankruptcy follows.

Harnessing this form of ignorance is common throughout capitalist society.  It is rare for one to acknowledge his posh lifestyle simply came through a process of vetting, undertaken by the upper class into their ranks.  Rather ignorance most often restricts the knowledge of this from the petty bourgeoisie.

The view of Trump having made himself rich as a businessman; a sort of man who became rich with his own money and business sense, is fiction.  Trump was born into money, his dad was a real estate tycoon from New York, who helped his son get into casinos at a young age, like Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. He built a small empire after his dad died in luxury properties, he did not trade commodities, rather traded the profit from capitalist industry, the money kept as surplus value by capitalists for their own personal enjoyment, rather than a product like an auto part, sold as a commodity.  Trump has been chosen to represent his class, as he has always been,from his start as a casino owner to his presidency. It is doubtful he would be intelligent enough to be pulling some sort of scam, supporting the proletariat from his position as president. 

He has no experience as a commodity producing capitalist, yet the farmers liked him, and although he was not elected in 2016, appointed rather in 2017 after losing the popular vote; then, following his loss in suffrage in 2020, questioned the validity of American elections by having a group of ruffians , ex military and police, storm the capital on January 6th 2020.

It seemed like he was gone then,  but by leveraging the ignorant by the bourgeoisie, just like in Russia and Eastern Europe, where employee ownership ended due to ignorance of what capitalism really represented, Trump came back.  American antisocialist laws are present here, with political prisons for Jews, communists, etc. which echo the rise of Hitler.  Trump regularly calls his opponents lunatics, sick individuals, etc. like Hitler and his SS in the thirties.  

The large landowners are represented in government by the constitution, that keeps them at the table  so to speak with large capitalist industry.  There was a time agriculture was all the land was used for under the British, when America was a colony.  The planters who rebelled  understood that industry would follow revolution, that the north in particular would  build heavy industry, eventually challenging the South where the slave plantations were.  

This was rectified by having the upper house of Congress have 2 seats for each state.  It keeps large scale agriculture in power; the areas with less population, or a rural population of a sort of reserve army of workers., like the city is present.  It’s like the poor whites during the Civil war supporting the landowners; they were no help to them,  but they supported the slaveowners who used them for an army to fight the north, where slavery was not present, as in Wisconsin, or minimally present, like Lincoln’s state of Illinois.

The phenomenon of support for landowners, not the family farm, rather the more industrial form of agriculture, heavily mechanised petroleum dependent large scale agriculture, is what Trump harnessed.  Without unions, large agriculture’s labour is low paid, often m Mexican immigrants many  of whom are in the country illegally.  There is little or no movement to nationalise the land, rather a distant belief in a capitalist who will buck the system, and support the little guy.

You don’t get rich supporting the little guy.  Trump is a billionaire, he represents capital, he is the living embodiment  of capital, it is his hand that creates the surplus value. 

Perhaps it is the idea a person can go to the casino, and walk out a millionaire.  You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than winning at Trump’s casino.  It is the roughest place in town, where if you don;t spend enough you get kicked out.  If you went there hungry you would get bounced  for asking for food.  It’s a dog eat dog reality.

In the cities it is a little harder for capitalists.  Libraries, museums, theaters,  etc. are part of urban society,  and the proletariat is thus a little harder to fool.  There is less ignorance in the city, rural society has none of these advantages.  Collectively large scale industry comprises much of the activity in the city, with buzzing ports, retail capital workers, large commodity producing recycling operations.  It is a stark difference to rural America, reflecting a massive divide between town and county. 

Rectifying this divide will take time.  Nationalising the land will follow, as large landowners have to increasingly reckon with a union of farmers at the site of harvest and in the fields.  The cooperative markets will be where the money comes from, and outreach for the small and large cooperatives that will replace the capitalist landowner will come from here.

The state will not be buying the land for the cooperative. The workers may have to use the money created in production to buy additional land, or nationalizing the land if the landowners refuse to cooperate with their workers. 

This will not be easy, but will start to rectify the huge gap between town and country.  Getting used to being in a union at work on the farm, much like his proletarian cousin in the city, will follow.  

The system is geared against them.   There will be losses, but also victories.  As recognition of membership in the class of labourers comes,  that they do not own the stocks in the means of production,  collectively the poor rural man will support more radical leadership.  He is up against the constitution, this may take time.  But don’t give up on the countryman, instead remove the ignorance.  

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

11 28 2025