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If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.

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It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.

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Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

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One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

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Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

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So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

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Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

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Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.

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The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.

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The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance.

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Sociologist

Born: March 17th, 1929

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