Weber Karl Marx and Max Weber, both social scientists, devoted much of their work to the defining of capitalism through understanding its creation, causes, workings, and destiny. ... He believed that each phase of history was defined by and ultimately driven by the dominate mode of production of the time. ... Capitalism to Marx is the natural stage in the history man, it is not the last stage but creates the platform for the last stage, communism, were man no longer experiences class struggle. ...

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(Marx-Engels Reader P.483) Weber does not agree that class conflict is what defines history, but he does say that a class, though not being a community, has the possibility for producing societal action. ... One thing that I believe both Marx and Weber didn't look at is the fact that whatever the basis for our means of producing life's necessities, whether it be capitalism or communism, is that we are by nature animals that are driven to survive. ...

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