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

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

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

If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

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

On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.