He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

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.

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

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.