Taxation and industry could follow the newer ideals of industrial democracy, avoiding private land monopoly and poverty, and promoting co-operation in production and the socialization of income.
W.E.B. Du Bois: “Taxation and industry could follow the newer ideals of industrial democracy, avoiding private land monopoly and poverty…”
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Du Bois discusses the potential for economic reform in Africa through cooperative production and socialized income.
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