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It is consciousness which determines existence or capitalism.
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And that's what The Protestant Ethic is trying to do.
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And, of course,
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he has this interesting notion of
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elective affinity--
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questions whether there is really a causal relationship
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between ideas and the economy.
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And you can labor on this,
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what he might mean.
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And what you think--this is a cop-out--right?
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that he actually--
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is Marx more of a contemporary social theorist,