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Plutocracies the world has seen before, but a democratic civilization organized upon the lines laid down by modern Socialists would be a new beginning in the world’s history.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

There is, it is said, a tendency in Plutocracies either to become unprogressive, unenterprising and stagnantly autocratic, or to develop states of stress and discontent, and so drift towards Cæsarism.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The inhabitants of manufacturing towns are apt to grow petty Plutocracies, in which after wealth, ignorance and assumption are the principal qualifications. 

From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel