No more such relaxed opponents with still enormous though misleading popular appeal in the Third World. Secondly, huge, densely populated China and Russia with educated cheap workforce and industrial potential enter the world markets. The loop of capital accumulation will function well without much of the Third World. This will overburden the system, for no system can consist of core alone. Democracy allows social groups to organize and struggle politically pressing their demands upon governments.
Democracy makes governing institutions more open to popular influences.