Overview
“The cause of all major changes in societies is a conflict between social classes.” Write an essay on how and why Marx and Weber would respond to this statement. In your essay, support the position of one or the other. Write a paper of 5 or 6 pages that responds to the prompt, and make sure you clearly state your thesis. Quality is more important than quantity. All work must be your own, and your essay must be appropriately documented.
Texts studied:
- Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
- “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” (1852), “Capital” (1867) Volume 1, “Friedrich Engels, Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx” (1883), “Socialism: Utopian and scientific” (1880),
- Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1843), Estranged Labor (1844), German Ideology (1845), Eleven Thesis on Feuerbach (1845), “The Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848)