There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

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.

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

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

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization

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.