53 | Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Anti-Materialist Sociology
What's Left of Philosophy
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Are You a Historical Materialist?
Viber: I'm teaching Vanessa Will's is, what does it mean to say that capitalism causes racism and sexism tomorrow in my class? And you know, she's really clear. It's just, you know, it's very strange to think that ideas don't take on the form in particular social context. What we're looking for is actual causal mechanisms of how these all work together. Viber: If part of the legacy of Viberianism is this your misconception that to be an historical materialist means nothing to do with culture,. Nothing to do with ideas. It is just your pure, cold economic processes.
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