Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution: A Gramscian by Jan Rehmann

By Jan Rehmann

Basing his examine on Gramsci’s thought of hegemony, Rehmann presents a accomplished socio-analysis of Max Weber’s political and highbrow place within the ideological community of his time. Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution exhibits that, even if Weber provides his technology as ‘value-free’, he's top understood as an natural highbrow of the bourgeoisie, who has the project of delivering his classification with an severe ethico-political schooling. seen as a complete, his writings current a brand new version for bourgeois hegemony within the transition to ‘Fordism’. Weber is either a pointy critic of a ‘passive revolution’ in Germany tying the bourgeois type to the pursuits of the agrarian classification, and a proponent of a extra sleek model of passive revolution, which might foreclose a socialist revolution via the development of an commercial bloc including the bourgeoisie and labour aristocracy.

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Opposing the ‘ethics of conviction’ to the ‘ethics of responsibility’ fulfils a similar function of securing distinctions; the opposition delegitimises every fundamental critique of given relations as a form of otherworldly irresponsibility. The Protestant Ethic, which Weber calls a ‘purely historical account’, is also calibrated, from the outset, to the modernisation aimed at by German capitalism. Its significance consists in the ‘ethical’ mobilisation of economic subjects in the transition to Fordism.

2146. 22 For contrast, compare Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, on conditions in the meatpacking industry, with those passages in Ford’s autobiography in which Ford describes his clean, well-lit factory buildings, linking cleanliness to morality: ‘The dark corners which invite expectoration are painted white. One cannot have morale without cleanliness’ (1922, p. 114). 23 Gramsci 1992, p. 174. 24 In Gramsci, the concept is intended mainly to describe a radical transformation of Europe’s society, economy and civilisation that occurred under the pressures of the usa’s economic predominance,25 a transformation achieved, in part, in the fascist forms of a Fordism bent on violent catch-up development.

282. 14 Ibid. On the capitalist symbolism of skyscrapers, compare the sociological study of D’Eramo 2002, pp. 53–8: built by and for the large corporations, they reproduced ‘the vertical organization of a huge company, as huge as the building itself. 16 Weber attentively notes the modes in which class antagonism plays out, modes reminiscent of civil war. 18 What fascinates Weber about American capitalism is not just the level of technological development and the intensity of work, but also the brutal visibility of class struggles.

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