Does a moneyed economy wrest control from the people? We're still waiting for Leftie

In the 1950s, the English journalist W. J. Weatherby, who wrote for the The Guardian but spent much of his career in the United States, once interviewed the celebrated and controversial American playwright, Clifford Odets at a time when Odets was despondent about the world politic. Indeed he had been called in May, 1952 before the House of Un-American Activities  to bear witness to his political sympathies. Odets had briefly been a member of the Communist Party in the early 1930s.

During his interview Weatherby asked Odets if he was concerned about the state of the world politic and Odets first replied, “What’s the problem?” before providing another question in answer to his initial  query. “In America  -  I won’t talk about the rest of the world -  the problem is, “Are peace and plenty possible together with the democratic growth to use them? ”Can you have democracy and growth or does a moneyed economy by definition wrest control from the people?”

Is the jury still out on this question?