The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy

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The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy is written by Victor Strazzeri and published by Historical Materialism Book. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004524428 (ISBN 10) and 9789004524422 (ISBN 13).

"The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of a classic social thinker once called the 'bourgeois Marx' from the standpoint of his relationship to the foremost working-class organization of his time. It argues that Weber's early engagement with the standpoint of the rural worker - not his later study of the ethics of ascetic Protestant entrepreneurs - first convinced him of the central role of culture in human agency. The crisis of liberalism in a rapidly modernising, conflict-ridden Imperial Germany embarking on colonial expansion emerges in the work as the decisive setting for the genesis of Weberian social thought"--