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Bernie Sanders

rbnyc

(17,045 posts) Sat Jul 4, 2015, 12:26 PM Jul 2015

wealth does not equal virtue (crosspost)

I wrote this as a reply in some discussion a while ago and someeone suggested I make it an OP. I just posted it over at GD-primaries.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251424740

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wealth does not equal virtue (crosspost) (Original Post) rbnyc Jul 2015 OP

Social Darwinism swilton Jul 2015 #1

swilton

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1. Social Darwinism

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Sat Jul 4, 2015, 01:38 PM

Jul 2015

Derived from US protestant (pro-capitalist) social history. Max Weber (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) traces the rise of capitalism and its prevalence in Northern Europe to the Protestant Reformation.

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