We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner.
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.
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.
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.