• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    One of Weber’s main intellectual concerns was in understanding the processes of rationalisation, secularisation, and disenchantment. He formulated a thesis arguing that such processes were associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity. Weber also argued that the Protestant work ethic influenced the creation of capitalism in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. It was the earliest part in his broader consideration of the world religions, as he later examined the religions of China, India, and ancient Judaism. Source

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      3 months ago

      Weber died in 1920. Fascism had literally only existed by name for a year before he died. He was not arguing about fascism, hence fascism never being mentioned on that Wikipedia page.

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        3 months ago

        Fascism was an outgrowth of capitalism that’s barely a century old.

        This was what I was responding to, and the way it’s worded it seemed (to me at least) they were saying capitalism is barely a century old.