Re: request for sources: Marx versus Weber

[michael perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Carrol Cox wrote:

> You are going to get violently opposed ideas on this. It was recently
> the subject of an extensive and inconclusive war on the list PEN-L.
> My own view is that the best reply to Weber is to be found in
> Ellen Meiksins Wood, Democracy against Capitalism (Cambridge
> U.P., 1995). James Blaut has attacked Weber in several works,
> which you should read. My own view is that Blaut in effect
> provides the philosophical basis for the triumph of Weber over
> Marx by taking capitalism out of history and makeing it an
> eternal force. But there is no good in repeating these arguments
> so soon after the debate on Pen-L.
>
> Carrol Cox
>
> Amandeep Sandhu wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am looking for some literature sources that contrast the Marxian and
> > the Weberian conception of the origins of capitalism. Also, if there are
> > some sources that critique Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis, I would like
> > to know these as well.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Amandeep

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