Born Karl Emil Maximilian By Max Weber

Before discussing Marx and Weber’s theories we must look at their upbringing and who has influenced their works. Karl Marx was born in West Germany in a small business city called Trier, in 1818 (Karl Marx, Intro. to Part III, Pg.135). Karl Marx was the son of a rich family and

and subsequent reinvestment of capital, is an end that both Weber and Marx reach in their analyses of society and agree on in definition. However, while Marx tells us that phantoms of the brain i.e. morality, religion, ideology, cannot develop independently of material production or influence it, Weber argues that ideas and religion can indeed determine life and the processes of life, namely our material production. The key difference between the two is their scope of factors that can cause historical development. Marx only allows for one factor, productive forces and the economic conditions resulting from them; Weber, on the other hand, acknowledges that while ideology and religion can support the economic relations as a driving factor, they can also develop independently and become a factor, a force on its own that can alter production, economic conditions, and thus history. By accounting for the multiple ways in which a society can be altered, Weber provides a more complete and applicable understanding of historical development and the powerful concept that an idea from an individual or group of individuals can have a legitimate and significant effect on the direction of society.

After his father died in 1903, his mother allowed him to drop out of his school and 2 years later, he went to Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria in order to become an artist. He failed in entrance exam and decided to remain in Vienna as a casual laborer and watercolor painter. A year later, he tried to take entrance exam and he failed again. While he run out of money, he moved into a homeless shelter and remained for several years. During his time in Vienna, he learned to hate non Germans. He was a German-speaking Austrian and considered himself as a German.

After the death of his mother his music career became even greater. After taking some time off due to his mother’s death, Ludwig moved to the city of Vienna in the year of 1790 to work on his music career. When Ludwig arrived in Vienna, he began studying with Joseph Haydn. “While being in Vienna and studying, Ludwig wasn’t a happy student of Haydn because Haydn never had the time to teacher Haydn (Green).” A few moves after arriving to Vienna, Ludwig had to return home to the city of Bonn because he learn that his father had passed away. After dealing with everything with his father’s death, Ludwig

Max Weber was born in Erfurt, Germany on April 21, 1864. He also came from a middle class background. Weber's father was a

John Henry Weber was born in Holstein in 1779. He grow up to be a fur trapper. During his time

People commonly draw similarities between the relationship of a father and son and that of a man and their shadow. However, this raises several questions. What is one to do if their shadow becomes larger than themselves? Or perhaps the shadow no longer resembles the man? Such questions arise in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel and the graphic novel MAUS by Art Spiegelman. While no definite conclusions can be drawn, they act as guidelines in explaining why the family culture that emerges as a result of Holocaust events deters father-son relationships. The Jews all respond differently, causing such uprooted father-son connections and proving that similar religious beliefs do not necessarily translate to similar decisions in extenuating conditions.

Otto von Bismarck was born on April 1st 1815, in Schonhausen, Northwest of Berlin in the district of

Leo Szilard (originally Leo Spitz) was born in Budapest (Austria-Hungary) on February 11th, 1898. His middle-class Jewish parents: Louis Spitz, a civil engineer and Thekla Vidor, raised him. Convinced that there was no future for him in post-war Hungary, Szilard left his homeland for Berlin when he was 21 years old. The young man enrolled at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, where he attended lectures given by Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Walter Nernst, James Franck and Max von Laue. Szilard received German citizenship in 1930, but was already uneasy about the political situation in the country. When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany he urged his family and friends to flee Europe while they still could. In our timeline he also successfully

The dominant political figure of German history in the twentieth century, Adolf Hitler, was born in a lower middle class family in the provincial Austrian town of Braunau am Inn on 20 April 1889. In 1907 Hitler applied to enter the Vienna Academy of Art but his application was rejected. After the death of his mother Klara, Hitler decided to move to Vienna. He drifted from job to job, often selling sketches or painting scenes of Old Vienna and it was a period that he himself later called the most miserable period of his life. Many of Hitler’s views of the world were shaped by his experiences on the streets of Vienna and it is probable that his violent anti-Semitism dates from this time.

During the time living in Vienna he went to school until 1889. In 18990 the family moved to Graz due to his father job, four years later moved to Klagenfurt. At the time when he moved to Klagenfurt he attended the school Klagenfurt Humanistisches Gymnasium. He studied traditional courses in humanities he got very high grades. Anton studied Peter Rosegger work in which influenced him in his music career. He graduated in 1902 from Klagenfurt Humanistisches Gymnasium. As a celebration he went to Bayreuth Festival in which he heard Richard Wagner's operas after that event he was very deeply inspired. 1902 he went on to attend Musicological Institute at the University of Vienna where he studied musicology with Guido Adler. Webern has always

While in Germany, Weber was put in charge of a study regarding the inflow of Polish farm workers into eastern Germany while other workers moved to rapidly industrializing cities in Germany. He wrote a vast majority of the final report, which caused a decent amount of controversy. This helped mark the beginning of his mark as a social scientist.

Wagner continued on and at the age of 11, he had written his very own drama, and by the age of 16 he was composing his own musical compositions. Although Wagner didn’t complete his preparatory education curriculum, he still enrolled in Leipzig University in 1831. However, with very little patience with academic techniques he dedicated himself to the

Both Karl Marx and Max Weber assert that capitalism is the dominion of abstractions and the irrational accumulation of abstract wealth for the sake of wealth. For Marx, the state of capitalism is entrenched in the social classes to which people have bben assigned. Capitalism, according to Marx, is a result of the bourgeoisie 's ascent to economic and political power. This fuels the manifestation of a system that exploits the labour power of the lower socioeconomic classes for the gain of the higher socioeconomic classes. Weber understands the state of capitalism to be the end product of the work ethic of the Protestant branches of Christianity and the secularization of Protestant puritanism, which helped fuel rationalism. Capitalism, according to Weber, is to be understood as the relations and methods of production and commodities, now rationalized. Ultimately, Marx ascribes the ascent of capitalism to the exploitation of people and power, while stressing that such a system can be overcome by a communist revolution, whereas Weber states that such a system is the result of cultural choices and is not as convinced that capitalism can be overcome.

Max Weber was one of the world's greatest sociologists and wrote a lot about the capitalist world he lived in. He had a different conception of capitalist society than most of his contemporaries. He looked at capitalism from all the different aspects that the philosophy was made of. Some of these aspects are state power, authority, class inequality, imperialism, and bureaucracy. To understand how Weber thought one must look at each area separately then put them all together in a global package.