Re: Max Weber: the "Iron Cage" & the Commercialization Model

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:44:42 -0500 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>
writes:

>
> Yeah, I may be going overboard, but I'm as committed as my late
> comrade Jim Blaut to the destruction of Eurocentrism.  I'd like to
> carry on his legacy; though my method is not exactly the same as
> his,
> I have learned much from his work & posts.  Besides, I feel I owe it
>
> to him (though I can't explain why I feel this way).
>
> Lots of intellectuals in the so-called West have been deeply
> influenced by Max Weber.  They have sunk their intellectual capital
> in his stock.  I intend to bring down Weber's stock.

Among those intellectuals have been many who considered
themselves to be Marxists.  Georg Lukacs was a protege
of Weber's, as well as the logical empiricist-Marxist Otto Neurath.
The Frankfurters were clearly very much influenced by Weber too.
What might be of interest here is the extent to which many
prominent Marxists have been influenced by (both positively
and negatively)by Weber.  Did these Marxists manage to
uncover the "rational kernel" of Weber's thought or
has this influence been detrimental to the development
of their own ideas?

Jim F.

> (See my latest
>
> post on the possessive investor in Weber.)
>
> Yoshie

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