Political Science 1020E Chapter Notes -Antonio Gramsci, Class Stratification, Bourgeoisie
1 May 2013
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That the state must lay claim to legitimacy is a fact for weber, but it is not the domain of science to determine the ethical validity of the legitimation. The modern state is now not only sociologically conceived as a set of mere institutional means, its legitimizing ideology is premised upon only the vaguest notion of ethical ends. In general, the state was seen as emerging on the basis of increasing social differentiation variously expressed. Marx"s materialism involves a dialectical understanding of social relationships. Marx is one with contemporary anthropology, which has always and everywhere, defined the state in social terms as a state form of society. Marx is an advocate of the unity of theory and practice in which the validity of theory can be confirmed only in revolutionary praxis. Communism is objectively possible only to the extent that it can actually be created in practice. Weber utterly rejects praxis in the name of value neutrality.
