ABSTRACT
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois emphasized that economic basis must underlie and sustain political rights and legal theory; and economic power would break down the walls of exclusion. Therefore, he advised African Americans to seek a new path, and fight on a different front, while fighting against discrimination and segregation. Du Bois's ideal of industrial democracy was the guiding principle in the founding of African American economic nation within a nation. It should be noted that he made a distinction between political democracy and economic democracy. In June, 1932, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois urged African Americans to study the problem whether communism, as illustrated by Soviet, could be applied to themselves. He recommended African Americans to read Karl Marx's Capital. Du Bois insisted that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People should have a positive program rather than mere negative attempt to avoid segregation and discrimination.
