books.google.co.uk - This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/THE_PROTESTANT_ETHICS_AND_THE_SPIRIT_OF.html?id=fo9OIS7I0XAC&q=especially&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareTHE PROTESTANT ETHICS AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM
