![]() This origin is what really needs explanation. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, German Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus, (190405), thesis by Max Weber that asserts a connection between success in capitalist ventures and the accidental psychological consequences of Calvinist Christian doctrines, especially predestination. should come to dominate others, it had to originate somewhere, and not in isolated individuals alone, but as a way of life common to whole groups of men. In order that a manner of life so well adapted to the peculiarities of capitalism could be selected at all, i.e. But here one can easily see the limits of the concept of selection as a means of historical explanation. Thus the capitalism of to-day, which has come to dominate economic life, educates and selects the economic subjects which it needs through a process of economic survival of the fittest. It forces the individual, in so far as he is involved in the system of market relationships, to conform to capitalistic rules of action, The manufacturer who in the long run acts counter to these norms, will just as inevitably be eliminated from the economic scene as the worker who cannot or will not adapt himself to them will be thrown into the streets without a job. ![]() ![]() “The capitalistic economy of the present day is an immense cosmos into which the individual is born, and which presents itself to him, at least as an individual, as an unalterable order of things in which he must live. ![]()
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