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This 3 page paper discusses the philosophical positions of Marx and Weber with regard to capitalism, and argues that Marx's position is stronger. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and insights into the capitalist system. Discussion The most prominent difference in the two philosophical positions is that Marx felt that violent overthrow was the only answer to stop the
abuse of the workers under the inherently unfair capitalist system, and Weber felt that workers had equal rights and would share in the profits accordingly. According to Weber, capitalism
is "rational in the sense that it bases decisions on calculations of likely return ... capitalism also supposes that there are free markets for products and for labour and other
factors of production" (Kilcullen-Weber, 1996). Capitalism also has a habit of "treating all people as having rights and as possible partners in law-regulated commercial dealings" (Kilcullen-Weber, 1996). In this system,
unlike the vision of Marxs state, "residents are mostly citizens with rights, not subjects at the rulers discretion" (Kilcullen, 1996. In addition, Webers constant theme "is that the pattern of
relations among the various factors is crucial in determining their effect upon economic rationalization" (Kilcullen-Weber, 1996). If one part of the system is very much stronger than the others, "capitalism
will not develop" (Kilcullen-Weber, 1996). This would seem to dismiss Marxs argument about those who own the means of production; since the owners are extremely powerful, capitalism would not develop
if the Weber model is correct. Kilcullen points out that Weber "was perhaps the first great master of the major institutional facts of world history," and although this description "exaggerates
Webers standing as an historian," it is worth noting "that the progress of historical scholarship does not seem favourable [sic] to the idea that there is a central chain of
causation running through history" (Kilcullen-Weber, 1996). This of course knocks Marxs theories out of the box, because he did see class struggle as something that occurred continually in human history.
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