... flaws existing in the capitalist society (Macionis, 1997: 78). This materialistic approach to the understanding of capitalism lead to Marx's ideas of class conflict as the motivational force driving sociological change throughout history. As quoted in Marx's Manifesto of the Communist Party, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf...in a word, oppressor ... ). Weber's main objective in his explanation for the rise of capitalism is to illustrate the importance of ideas or "non-economic factor...

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