In order to avoid both ambiguity and moralistic overtones, an objective assessment of the role civil society might play in entrenching democracy and the market economy in a given society has to make clear which of the many parallel, sometimes even overlapping, civil societies have the potential to contribute to that end, and which tend to oppose it.
Tant que l'on n'a pas bien compris qu'elle est un univers complexe et contradictoire, une palette de genres et de secteurs, dire qu'une société civile "forte" est une condition sine qua non de la démocratisation n'a pas grand sens.