While I'm generally in favor of redistribution of wealth, power and knowledge, this doesn't seem an insight so trivial that it can be asserted without underpinn

While I'm generally in favor of redistribution of wealth, power and knowledge, this doesn't seem an insight so trivial that it can be asserted without underpinning to me, nor congruent with history. Industrialization was essential or at least catalytic to democracy, which happened without public control over production production means (I'm ignoring the Marxist view in this).