Presence of Democratic Socialists in Liberal Progressive Party 7 8 2026

Given the move to start another red scare by Donald Trump, it is time to attempt to rectify the situation.  There have been several positions in Congress, and local mayors, in the east, that have been won by people suggesting they are democratic socialists.  The Republican bourgeoisie is calling it communism, and  due to the big money required by the liberal progressive bourgeoisie to compete in suffrage, there has yet to  be a serious rebuttal.

“Democratic socialist Melat Kiros won the June 2026 primary election for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, defeating 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette. As the Democratic nominee in the solidly blue Denver area, she is heavily favored to win the general election and become the ⁠first Gen Z woman in Congress”.

“Additionally, a slate of ⁠Democratic Socialists of America- endorsed progressive challengers also won their June 2026 primaries in ⁠New York, securing strong positions for the upcoming midterms

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“Two prominent democratic socialists won the June 23, 2026 Democratic primaries in heavily blue districts, effectively assuring their election to the U.S. Congress in November:

• Claire Valdez: A labor organizer and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member who won the primary for ⁠New York’s 7th Congressional District.
• Darializa Avila Chevalier: A community organizer and DSA member who defeated an incumbent in ⁠New York’s 13th Congressional District. 

The democratic socialists who won the election were in majority Democratic Party areas, places mostly urban that overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.  The reason this is important is there is some overlap between the democratic socialists and Democratic Party.  We saw this when Bernie Sanders ran for president as a Democrat, and was defeated by Democrats connected to and following Joe Biden.

Sanders was defeated by the Democrats themselves, although he had some momentum, it quickly became clear in 2020 the Democrats were not going to be ruled by a socialist.  They closed ranks on Sanders, and he lost in suffrage,

Consequently we were given Joe Biden, who was able to command a majority.  His age then was 77 years old in 2020.  His opponent was 74; clearly it was the old guard represented by Donald Trump that Biden defeated.

Biden’s rule was not socialism.  Nothing was nationalized,  in particular the land  remained in the hands of mostly large landowners, with corporations often owning the land outright, or smaller farmers trying to eke out an existence and somehow compete with the multi million dollar large machinery used to produce on the big farms.

When it comes down to it, if a farmer is still on the land in 2026, he is there by the graces of big capitalists.  Small farmers are easily removed by large capitalists.  The only way to stay on the land is to toe the line, become a businessman,  a petty bourgeois capitalist, supporting Donald Trump.   Those who fail to do this are mercilessly removed from the land, and join the ranks of the urban proletariat.

Nationalizing the land is a tall order, as these democratic socialists are all urban.  Even our Colorado Democratic Party socialist’s district who in the primary (there is still a possibility the Republicans could defeat these new candidates, but this would be highly unusual, and improbable given the demographics) , won in downtown Denver.  

Clearly socialism and communism are primarily urban phenomena.  These terms rather directly refer to questioning the ownership of the means of production by capitalists, rejection of production for an ever greater quantity of surplus value.  I’m referring to the part of the day that is worked for no pay by the worker in the factory, or for large landowners; we call this surplus value.  Profit is essentially this, although surplus value more directly refers to the amount of hours worked without pay as labour, whereas profit includes the cost of the means of production and raw materials used up in production, calculated with the  surplus value.

Profit is harder to comprehend, as it includes the means of production, which can be very large, resulting in multimillion dollar machines often run by an individual ,or a small group of workers. Compared to the price of the means of production, labor costs seem to be small. But when we look at surplus value produced by an individual worker, it is considerable.  

At a lower level of industrial development profit can be larger, as machinery is worked by more workers, rather than large scale industry, where there are few workers and massive machines.  It is misleading because the machinery is included in the cost of production.  Clearly as productivity rises, surplus value rises as a rate, whereas the rate of profit falls.

Therefore we generally use the term surplus value to refer to the  part or the workday that is worked without pay.   

Socialism and communism refer to rejection of  surplus value in production.  The work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels revealed scientifically the origin and practice of private property, and the surplus value attached to it.   The 4 volumes of Capital are so concise that there is often nothing left to discuss but how to organize the proletariat to throw off its shackles, and control the means of production.  

I don’t think the Democratic Party represents this.  Sander’s run as a Democrat, and consequential failure,  should tell us something.  The embarrassment of having to ask his following to vote Biden something most of us would not like to revisit.

It is possible to have a bourgeoisie less extreme than Trump’s, that is what is decided in suffrage.  It is something to take part in, and as a grown man a certain responsibility is expected of someone, that of filling out the ballot and taking it to the drop box. Much of the time workers don’t bother to vote because they don’t trust the candidates.  They should  get over it; just because a revolution is not going to be elected, doesn’t mean it is not worth voting.  

And I think the latter is probably why  the Republican bourgeoisie are trying to make socialism and communism profanity.  They know too many workers vote Democrat, and the presence of a few who are more radical offends their better judgement as bourgeois.

This should tell us something; we are doing it right.  If the only connection is voting, that  sounds easy.  But as we saw on January 6th, Republicans don’t want to play the game.  Desperate for power, it is they who jeopardized the system of universal suffrage, not the socialists or communists.

The liberal progressives are capable of giving in, but it runs contrary to their petty bourgeois nature.  As far as revolution goes, if someone has a feeling about  socialism, they should qualify it by reading Capital by Karl Marx.  Then come at us with problems.  Instead it is dog whistles, and attempts to make taboo anything that questions their ownership of the means of production.  Given our familiarity with Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, etc.  it seems strange to be afraid to allow someone to read a book just because they disagree with its contents.  But that is the  morass of bourgeois culture, and ignorance follows in its wake. 

It makes one wonder just how foolish the representatives of the capitalist state would look if directly questioned about basic economic ideas, like what is a commodity?  Or what does the term “value “ represent to him?  

The answer I’m afraid would be embarrassing.  The Chevron Pipeline politician takes orders well, and is vocal, but that is about how far it goes.  Given their lack of familiarity of what Marxism really represents,  and their following of rural large landowning capitalists, we see a system in place that  economically rewards ignorance.  If you are literate in economics, you are most likely in a city, therefore not in Trump land.  

That is where it stands, when the maps are drawn 80% democratic in a district, they  go socialist.  Thus the national insecurity by our landowning class of socialism.

Nicholas Jay Boyes 

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

7 8 2026

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