Private ownership of land, tools, and raw materials may at one stage of economic development be a method of stimulating production and one which does not greatly interfere with equitable distribution.
Du Bois acknowledges that private ownership can stimulate production but warns of its potential to disrupt equitable distribution.
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A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.
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