The Beginnings of Capitalism and the New Mass Morality
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Grossman criticises Max Weber’s argument, recapitulated by Franz Borkenau, about Calvinism’s role in the emergence of capitalism. According to Grossman’s Marxist account, Calvinism emerged as a doctrine neither the masses nor the bourgeoisie but of the craft stratum. Capitalism arose two centuries earlier than Calvinism. A crucial aspect of ‘education in labour discipline’, that Borkenau and Weber neglected, was coercion. Religion in general serves as ‘an instrument of mass domestication’....[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2006-11-22T02:29:15Z |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/44480 http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/44480 |
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