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.
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy
If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes
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.
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