But how about the accumulation of goods due to thrift and intelligence--would democracy in industry interfere here to such an extent as to discourage enterprise and make impossible the intelligent direction of the mighty and intricate industrial process of modern times?
Du Bois raises concerns about how democratic control in industry might impact enterprise and innovation.
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Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Away back in the days of bondage they thought to see in one divine event the end of all doubt and disappointment; few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries.
The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.