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Universal Suffrage. Fear of Milwaukee’s Workers. 4 5 2026

~ nicholasjayboyes

Universal Suffrage. Fear of Milwaukee’s Workers. 4 5 2026

If you want to talk about how much we are trusted, it should be obvious the conditions of what is called “democracy” should strike one immediately as an example of a bourgeoisie who distrusts its own citizens to make decisions regarding their own conditions.

The ownership structure of capitalism removes the worker from the chain of command, reducing his active output as a producer to that of a mere appendage of machinery he does not control.  The manager is chosen by the same forces that keep him subjugated, in wage labour producing surplus value for the capitalist.

Confronted with this he is supposed to take heart in a democratic government with fair suffrage.  In reality, he finds the Senate, president, and Supreme Court, all elected in ways that favor materially the bourgeoisie.

The Senate gets two votes a state or territory.  Alabama gets the same number of votes as Chicago, two for the state.  This mechanism easily allows for  large scale landowners to stay in power; they hold power in the less populated states, and rural areas that  comprise much of the country.

Who else but the bourgeoisie would settle on conquered land?  Naturally the settlers are in the pocket of the Republican bourgeoisie. So South Dakota, much of Wisconsin, Iowa, etc. all fairly recent settlements with rural populations have a different opinion of what reality is than the proletariat in the cities.

The proletariat is an urban phenomenon, comprised of workers producing commodities in industrial settings.  It is possible for the larger farms to have unions, but it is not there yet. Waiting for it to form on the large farms would prove to be something that could take generations. Compounding the problem is massive state subsidies of more than 50 billion dollars a year, divvied out by the state, controlled by the republican bourgeoisie.

When the  worker votes he is also confronted by the electoral college, that appoints presidents without a majority periodically.  His votes for a woman president are not heard, even if a majority in suffrage support her.  Instead he is supposed to be happy he got Donald Trump instead.

What does this show us but a small group of people in control scared of their own workers, with no intention of giving up power.

When our worker tries to go to legal means for emancipation, he gets Citizens United rulings.  The Supreme Court is appointed by the president, who does not have to control a majority to govern.  And to make it seem more legitimate, it is supported by the Senate, who rubber stamps the decision for Supreme Court Justices. 

Sometimes the more moderate liberal progressive bourgeoisie govern, but it is a miracle there is ever a Senate majority.  It favors the large landowners, who vote republican.

When you look at the demographics, clearly the cities all vote democrat.  The country votes republican; we see it every cycle of elections.  This is an indicator of the presence of large scale land ownership, and its dominance over the proletariat in the city. 

The answer is to nationalize the land. If large scale farming is so great, its benefits should be enjoyed by all of society, not a small group of families who control all the good land around the city.  Small farmers are a small part of modern farming already, at best they can inherit soil, which we should not tamper with. But make no mistake, small scale landowning in time will only produce the same results we have l already come to, dominance of capitalism and the demise of the small farmer. They will find a mechanism to retake their lands, and consolidate  ownership in no time without nationalization of large landownings.  Be it through inheritance, or other means, under capitalism there will always be an effort to concentrate ownership of land in a small aristocracy, who control the food production for the city.

This having been said, it is still imperative to take part in universal suffrage.  Local races in particular, such as the current struggle between Maria Lazar and Chris Taylor looks like landowners vs urban petty bourgeois; the latter more worldly, sometimes favoring the working class.  

Lazar is up against the Planned Parenthood woman.  She is against abortion, probably a Catholic.  And yes, a person’s religion can influence how they vote.

The proletariat has a duty to take part in all suffrage, regardless of how slanted toward management it becomes.  It is still one vote, one person, and numerically the proletariat outnumbers the owning class 10 to one.  It can happen.

As suffrage comes again for supreme court justice in Wisconsin, it is a real battle.  These small contests can attract the big money;  the last local elections brought Elon Musk and his big wealth here. This one no doubt will also bring big out of state money, due to fear of Milwaukee’s proletariat.  The election is in two days, a real test of equality.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

4 5 2026

Capitalism Continues Marching Forward.  3 14 2026

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Capitalism Continues Marching Forward.  3 14 2026

It seems strange Israel would accept the help of the capitalist Americans in Gaza and Iran.  It would  be the same argument that there are more than one form of capitalism; German or American.  

We experienced this in the second world war, where both the Americans and the Germans were involved in production for a greater amount of surplus value, the unpaid selection of the workday.  All the capitalists companies, for example Bayer IG Farbin, Adidas, Daimler Benz, all built Hitler’s war machine.  It was capitalism versus socialism, the Germans were for whom the bell tolled.

After the loss of the Germans the American bourgeoisie proceeded to try to rehabilitate capitalism there.  It looked a lot like Hitlers Germany; they didn’t even change the companies names that financed and produced the commodities Hitler used to attack Russia. The structure of the companies stayed capitalist, as opposed to the eastern section of  Germany that tried to reject wage labor, and live without production for surplus value. 

In time America’s capitalist machine would remove socialism from most of Europe.  The limited democracy in America would be overlooked; even after two Republican presidents in less than 20 years appointed without a popular majority.  First it was George II, then Donald Trump in his first appointment.  Combine that with a Senate with two votes per province or state, where Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee have the same votes as New York, Illinois , and California, I think you can see where this is going.   Clearly it is the large landowners who control the Senate, in our example Chicago, LA and New York have to contend with the reactionary landowners who outnumber them in the Senate.

And this is what was fought for that replaced socialism in Eastern Europe.  And it is still moving forward, now Israel is ensnared by it, with simple promises of advanced weapons and territorial expansion.

Israel would be best to remember it was Joseph Stalin who found and liberated Auschwitz. The quid pro quo of removing the Jews at the same time as the communists may have failed, but 6 million Jews lost their lives in genocide by the capitalist Germans.

The outcome of that war would have been the same with or without the Americans, the endless concessions to the remnants of Hitler’s war machine proved that.  The genocide came to an end in east and west Germany, but capitalism, what  Hitler built his empire with, is still with us. Thus we see Israel, an experiment with a Jewish state, taking their chances supporting capitalism.

We have learned to live with Don, his strange ideas about women, his prosecution of his liberal political enemies, his suggestions that socialists are stupid lunatics because they don’t support his capitalism.  We have to live with this, but Israel has volunteered to be part of this. 

Are we to really to believe Trump is going to support Stalin?  Find an example of that coming from his mouth.  In that respect he is reactionary, and little different from the Germans. 

Israel must feel the Germans’ support of antisemitism is no longer part of capitalism.  Elon Musk  is allowed to support the Alternative for Deutschland, the reactionary bourgeoisie.  He controls SpaceX rockets, and has a massive government contract to launch satellites that are used for targeting by Ukraine and Israel in their war efforts supporting the Americans. Musk is also developing non voluntary implants to control the spread of socialism among the young men.

I guess Israel supports this too. Perhaps we should start to brace for the fact Israel may be led by a fascist, or at least condones Musk and his AFD support.  

I once thought Israel was a noble cause, a place where the nightmare of the holocaust would never happen again.  But continued concessions to capitalism, and the presence of all major capitalist companies including the German ones I mentioned there have changed my mind.  All I can say is what I said at the outset; no socialist soul ever fight for a capitalist military.  Israel is asking its people for a sacrifice to support the bourgeoisie.  It is one that they expressed misgivings about at one time.  I guess those days are done now.

Nicholas Jay Boyes 

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

3 14 2026

Material Conditions and the Bourgeois Press

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The capitalist movement in Europe and America reached a crescendo in the late 20th century, and is still with us.  The mechanism of capitalism consolidates ownership of the land, and industry,  increasingly in the hands of a small aristocracy that own everything.

The group in control of the means of production are the modern bourgeoisie.  Cable television, and other outdated mediums such as regular radio fed television broadcasting,  paper newspapers, etc. have been used for propaganda purposes by this aristocracy.  

It is easily accessible, and paid for by capitalist advertising, a form of propaganda that if nothing else portrays a smiling face in the marketplace, the privately owned reality forced upon the ignorant worker.  Its political bent, due to the presence of the people who pay for the broadcasts, the ownership of the companies attempting to sell commodities by advertising, who are all capitalists, and support the more extreme form of them, the Republican bourgeoisie, as this is encouraged by the economic system of modern capitalism. 

Often the industry promoted is not metric, like gasoline powered automobiles from Detroit, a product of an industry intact still in a 20th century condition. The bourgeois press directly uses propaganda when it is time for suffrage, and the broadcast is not in the metric system.  The local political leader is on in 30 second attack ads when the worker wants to see local television news when limited suffrage occurs.

This system uses ignorance to promote a vision of capitalism that is not in tune with reality.  In Europe, the concession  of suffrage to the workers is used to justify expropriating employee owned shops.  Once political leadership can overcome the pressure of its workers, who for one reason or another have slipped back to capitalism, through the mechanism of ignorance and cable television, employee ownership is targeted and removed  by the Republican bourgeoisie. 

Without employee ownership, democracy doesn’t really mean much.  Given the factory is where the worker finds himself most of the time, democracy would seem to be in order there. But where is the suffrage for the manager?  Or the owner? It is no longer present after employee ownership is removed. 

The European Union is best at this expropriation process, all the while suggesting they are expanding democracy.  

The ignorant worker, who tunes into the cable television broadcast, (the station is also owned by the bourgeoisie), receives his social conditioning through this medium.  The internet is gradually removing this old system, corroding the cable television monopoly; ad block technology, and paying for the news rather than the free enterprise method of advertising paying for news is becoming the dominant model. 

The internet is a revolution.  The tech giants are trying to control the system, but can only do so much.  The Washington Post costs 10$  a month, you pay for it.  It is owned by Jeff Bezos, not the journalists.  The New York Times and Reuters are similar, you pay them directly.  Youtube is another one worth paying for, the purpose of this is so there are no advertisements.  

Society is materially changing, the main mechanism of control is ignorance. People are being told to believe things about subjects they need to find out about for themselves, by reading books.  Philosophy and political economy in particular; many people have feelings about what  socialism represents, yet have never read Marx’s Capital, even just volume One.  Or have feelings about the ancient world and have never been exposed to Aristotle or Plato.

The internet again is coming to the rescue; Amazon Prime delivers new and used books we had a hard time getting before, like works by Marx and Engels now accessible by internet for low prices.

Giving up the cable subscription for the internet saves money.  People are paying a hundred dollars a month for cable, and at best we can say it includes the internet., an internet connection costs about 50$,

As the material conditions change, outdated ideas resort to outdated technology to transmit their messages.  Cable television, radio broadcast television, AM radio, are all examples of outdated industry dominated by the Republican bourgeoisie.  Control of cable television consumes these people.   It is their main prerogative, and they control the companies advertising, and even have their political leaders on the station when suffrage occurs,to give us their bourgeois  propaganda.

It is a little harder to control the internet.  It is more advanced, and cheaper to use and produce than the outdated mediums. You have to be able to read and write to use it. 

The change in communications, the new medium of he web, is new millennium technology. The old methods of AM Radio and Cable are slowly dying out, but it maybe sometime before the Republican bourgeoisie concedes defeat. Furthermore dumbing down of the internet, connected to Artificial intelligence, attempts to make the internet more personal, more like a humanoid android, has consumed tech capital for years now. Perhaps their followers require a more personalized experience getting the news or shopping. What they encounter online will still be quite a bit of a different experience than going to the mall in the 20th century.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

12 31 2025