> Defenders of Weber, while attempting to hold Marxists responsible for
> every oppressive action ever undertaken in the name of Marx's theories,
> still steadfastly avoid addressing the
> consequences of Weber's theories.
>
> By avoiding this entire question, we become accomplices to the Nazi
> political line, namely that communism is so horrendous that unrestricted
> fascist slaughter is justified.
>
>
> and we all know what would happen to such ideologically incorrect
> 'accomplices' under the regime of revolutionary communism in the Soviet
> Union.
>
> "champions of Weber, enemies of the Revolution"
>
> i would prefer not to be characterized as an accomplice of the Nazi
> political line because i think 'ideal types', charisma, and status
> groups, are good sociological concepts to think with. to charge those who
> think likewise with being accomplices of Nazism is laughable. of course,
> it wouldn't have been a laughing matter in Stalin's courts.
>
> this type of symbolic violence that can be found in Marx's writings. i
> do think this sort of prose created the socio-psychological context for
> bolshevik excesses: the purges, the sort of surveillance described by
> Arendt (in the last post by M Pugliese), the general paranoia about
> disagreement, etc.
-- Michael Pugliese