He foresees a world of savagery equivalent to the ancient world (a blatant plutocracy) where anyone who is not "connected" is trampled underfoot, either by the government, organized crime, corporations or a combination of the three. 

Remember free representative constitutional republics (like the Roman Republic) are rarities through human history. The default form of governance has always been plutocracy in one form or another. 

Machiavelli understood this all too well. He was not a fascist - the Prince was a satire based largely on the Borgia dynasty - an exploration of how to exercise dominion in the worst possible way.