In the first place, it ought by this time to be realized by the labor movement throughout the world that no industrial democracy can be built on industrial despotism, whether the two systems are in the same country or in different countries, since the world today so nearly approaches a common industrial unity.
Du Bois argues that true industrial democracy cannot exist alongside industrial despotism, emphasizing global labor unity.
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