Marx

Marx Marx interpreted the Protestant Reformation as an aspect of the struggle of the rising bourgeoisie against the feudal ruling class. He saw the Protestant ethic as an ideological weapon used by capitalists to convince workers that hard work and obedience to their bosses was demanded by god. The Protestant ethic was meant to control the behavior of the working class, not the behavior of the bourgeoisie, who never led the ascetic life Weber described. Thus, British historian E. P. Thompson (1963) verified Marx's analysis by describing the "ideological terror" unleashed by capitalists against workers during the industrial revolution in England. U.S. historian Gabriel Kolko (1961), showed that Benjamin Franklin, portrayed by Weber as an ideal typical embodiment of the spirit of capitalism, was no ascetic; he was fond of food, drink, and mistresses. Marx and Weber thus analyzed the role of ideas and the nature of capitalism very differently. Marx was a dialectical weber, marx, said, capitalists, protestant, profits, ideologies, hegemony, european, class, capitalism, ascetic, workers, while, western, wealth, very, unique, thus, through, saw, resulted, rational, organization, interests, insisted, ideological, historian, global, ethic, bourgeoisie, behavior, against, working, work