Marx and Weber Today

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The paper compares the views of Marx and Weber on state organizations, owing to the rise of industrial, complex societies of the 19th century. The paper contends that Weber's view is more adaptable and still applicable for he did not see classes or institutions in such rigid terms. For instance, the paper illustrates how Weber would better understand what he saw around him if he were able to visit early 21st century Toronto, whereas Marx would not recognize state organizations to benefit the proletariat or social classes that could not be recognized as easily as in 19th century Europe.

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"The ideas of Karl Marx and Max Weber on the organizations of the state still seem to be relevant. State organizations that became more complex through the 19th and 20th centuries in the Western countries still do shape people's experiences of life. Marx saw European societies as organized to aid the social classes gaining from capitalism. All people could be seen in relation to the means of production and how the state helped to keep it going. Max Weber saw the rise of bureaucracy, in particular, as a natural setting to which people would have different links."

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