Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

[JCistGottMitUns]

Hello. I am a Catholic, and I am also a socialist. Now visit my channel and learn stuffs.

[halftimeman]

You no good piece of shit whoever waisted thier time and others, Showing off to the other childern, youtube is being infested with crap from morons.

[fernandokleinrocha]

good video. kinda silly, but good

[nicktumi]

Great video! But, could you site your sources? Thanks.

[luckyduckydec]

this is fucking impossible to watch. gurble gurble gurble . what the fuck they obviously dont talk like that. jesus this is thee worst.

[imocha1961]

How can youtube has wrongly used the name of the famous Indian Sociologist, Andre Beteille as Albert Wesker. Please correct the name immediately.

[warmwarmerdisco]

Great music, really.

[WSWarthog]

When religion acts as a force for social change then it's called a cult, and once it's dominance is cemented, it matures into a bona fide religion.

[nohxpolitan]

Whoever made this video must have been on crack.

[jerryhsu007]

Yeah, Microphones!

[SolarWinds63]

Why should we believe non believers. anti christ apostles.

[Deeenja]

:D:D:D the German and the French are definitly amazingly spoken^^-thanks for that!

[Zeberdee691]

3:50 Thats the most accurate map of Europe I have ever seen

[TBV06]

I think this just saved by degree.

Thank Christ for the BBC.

[LJay279]

@TBV06 i think you need more to save you're degree considering you cant spell LOL

[roidroid]

@LJay279 i think you mean "your", and "can't".

i hope you're embarrassed, spelling nazi. You insufferable cunts.

[canaan1967]

I like the generic calypso music during intro :-)

[jazzbo66zz]

Weber's great insight is that religion is manufactured by powerful interests. I think unreasoning superstition remains an abstraction really, Weber recognized "culture" as an concrete economic structure The undertaking of the elite to train working people to servitude was put under the administration of church authorities who acted really as the mass media of their time. The idea that we have been under surveillance for 400 years and the state has a monopoly on violence are his discoveries too

[Ranger4564]

@jazzbo66zz Nicely put. Not to take anything away from Weber, because I honestly don't know anything about him, but I must say, recent observations and analysis suggest that we've been ruled by ruthless individuals for millenia on millenia... and their psychology / beliefs / language / methodology / ideals have been passed on generation after generation. It's because the oppressors won that we have a state modeled after oppression. We just have to want to change that. Now, we can.

[MTCoblivsicas12345]

@Ranger4564 your right Webers work has been criticised as people owned money before Calvinism was around

[Ranger4564]

Um, India and China didn't go around the world subjugating the world's populations, while the Protestant Work Ethicists did. Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, England, Holland all went abroad and oppressed various people and stole their wealth, then used it to justify their oppressive system.

So yeah, in someone's nightmare, someone worked hard, but it wasn't the capitalists or Protestants, it was all the people in Africa, India, China, and elsewhere. Recall slavery? Imperialism?

[canaan1967]

@Ranger4564

That's exactly what i wanted to say. Imperialism, exploitation and struggle against wealth is as old as time. I do agree with Weber on the ability of Protestantism to maintain and justify our "work culture" ideology. I haven't read him extensively so I really should wait before I pass judgment on his ideas.

[vash01000100]

awesome way to sum up what i had to read for soci 101

[wutdaFU3K]

correlation does not mean causation weber.

[canaan1967]

@wutdaFU3K

Could you explain what you mean?

[IAMJESUSmovie]

Jesus Christ has returned. I AM.

[rocketshiptorehab]

this is great, thanks for posting

[seigneurvoland666]

lol nice job. nice humour

[tomsega]

Those who dislike Weber must at least be aware of two simple points: First, if you think he's somehow arguing that Protestantism is superior and wonderful then you're entirely misguided. The PESC wasn't a manifesto! Rather he objectively describes the emergence of capitalism as resulting from the insanity of the whole idea of salvation anxiety! Second, he did not argue that the protestant ethic was the the sole or primary cause for capitalism, rather, just one in a number of elective affinities.

[campaigners]

who gives a damn about your god, weber

[tomsega]

Why are you searching for his videos in that case..

[Ranger4564]

@tomsega I'll agree with Weber that Capitalism is a dysfunctional system wrought on humanity because of the deep self loathing someone once felt towards themselves, which they unfortunately projected out at others, in a psychological sense.

I am aware that capitalism arose as a way for non-landed a-holes to compete against the landed a-holes. Mercantilism was the result, leading to the world financial markets.

Only a self hater can come up with this: Not worthy till I work my self dead.

[Belegaer]

I am a WASP and proud.

[tacotony24]

protestant ethic is the biggest bullshit theory ever propagated. the WASPs (white angle saxon protestants) became wealthy only by looting other people's land and exploiting other people's labor.

Confronted by powerful economies like China and Japan, their supposedly impregnable walls are crumbling and collapsing.

It's insightful people eventually saw through this protestant ethic as a paper tiger - strength in appearance but is weak and ineffectual inside.

[tomsega]

Funny you should say that, when Weber addresses the Catholic south, which was just as colonial as the Prot north. South America? (Furthermore, Catholocism was the tool by which Italy ran the rest of Europe!) What Weber describes is the emergence of all-pervasive rationality. Perhaps the Prot north WAS successfull by "exploiting other peoples labour", as you put it, but it is precisely that tendency; the tendency toward bureaucracy and generating wealth for wealth's sake, which Weber explains.

[tacotony24]

you're confused. there is no Italy to "control" Europe with Catholicism since Italy for the most of its history is an amalgam of city-states. Colonies, for example, whether colonized by england or spain have remained poor

English colonies/territories = nigeria, south africa, zimbabwe, sudan, sri lanka, kenya, india (pakistan, bangladesh). These english protestant colonies/territories are some of the poorest in the world, racked by constant coup d' etat, instability, and murder.

[tomsega]

(USA and Australia, rather)

[tacotony24]

drop the "pedantic" talk - I'm just a regular guy making an argument. Why bring the Vatican when it is not even in our argument - unless if you have a hidden agenda. By the way, UK is not a colonized country - it is a colonizer!

[tomsega]

You quite discourteously began your reply with "you're confused", so I thought id' be appropriate to start mine with "you're pedantic" seeing as you picked on a brief sentence I had relegated to brackets. Seeing as this time your main line of attack is picking on a (clearly corrected) typo rather than bothering to make the case for anything, that gives me some sense I've won this discussion, although that wasn't my intention and I am entirely open to your long-thought-out opinions on Weber. Ciao

[tacotony24]

obviously you made mistakes in your previous arguments (whether you view this as immaterial or not) despite your denial but you're liable to your opinion. Ciao