Topic > Weber's Views on Capitalism in Karl Marx and Max Weber

Marx places the blame for inequality on large federal organizations, bureaucracies, capitalist corporations, and not on capitalism itself. He says that in a capitalist society the ruling class/bourgeoisie controls the major resources of production and uses their power and status to control the superstructure of the society, including its norms, values ​​and ideologies. Weber argues that the inequality defined by Marx has no basis in real life and defines power as the ability to use others and obtain their services by using one's resources such as: ownership of land, capital. Social status, physical strength and education. People who run businesses without owning them still benefit from increased production and greater profits. Weber saw stratification in terms of a triadic relationship between class, status and party. According to Weber, status is linked to inequalities that have to do with the way people judge each other and relate to each other. Class has to do with inequalities that have their origins in the functioning of capitalism and the market. The party is linked to the concepts of politics in its broadest sense. Weber argues that people who form groups and organizations tend to look after their own interests, thus sustaining and reproducing social inequality. Weber argued that owning property, such as factories or equipment, is only part of what determines a person's social class. Social class for Weber included power and prestige, in addition to property or property