The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (...) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.

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

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

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.

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

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

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