He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.

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.

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

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

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

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