plutocracy

• And democracy can't survive in a plutocracy, which is what we're becoming while Cindy and John pile up the houses. —  Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
• The labor of the country appeals through every channel it can to this administration and this Congress to stay the awful wreck that is threatened The eloquent address of Senator Ingalls presented still more forcibly and fully the evils of plutocracy, which is threatening the safety if it does not endanger the existence of the republic," by "the tyranny of combined concentrated, centralized, and incorporated capital." —  The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891
• The Populists and the radical Democrats felt that they were fighting the battle of the masses against "plutocracy"--the subtle and corrupting control of public affairs by the possessors of great fortunes; they thought that they saw arrayed against them the forces of wealth and the corporations, seeking to enslave them. —  The United States Since the Civil War
• He was in the habit of saying that the plutocracy, as he called it, ought to be put down,--that is, negatively and honestly,--by showing them no more respect than you really entertained for them. —  The Vicar's Daughter
• But through its sons of plutocracy, and their never-ending elation at finding themselves in, has arisen the Fund, by which poor but honest men can join, and do join, with never a thought of ways and means. —  Captivating Mary Carstairs

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