Plutocracy The First Time Around

(Before It's News)

By Steve Fraser, TomDispatch

Aversion to the new industrial order and a “democratic feeling” in the late 19th century brought workers, storekeepers, lawyers, and businessmen of all sorts together, appalled by the behavior of large industrialists who often enough didn’t live in those communities and so were the more easily seen as alien beings.

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