To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

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

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

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

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.