It's very interesting to compare the concept of Max Weber and Karl Marx. The latter, when he wrote about the initial accumulation of capital, painted, rather the technical side of the process, can be said monetary.
And Max Weber went further, he found a difference in entrepreneurial activity and saving money in accordance with the difference in religious beliefs. Why were the Catholic regions of Germany always less developed than the Protestant regions? Why kill the Huguenots? The answer lies in the difference between the confessions and the attitude of different people. The Protestant saved money, grew his capital from the belief that only entrepreneurial success is a state when God is with him.
Hence the Protestant ethic, trust in people, negotiability. According to Max Weber, the spirit of capitalism was born out of Protestant ethics and the economic growth of regions where most of the people - Protestants - were determined by the peculiarities of people's religious life.
The funny thing is that the Russian revolutionaries of the Romanov period simply could not understand Max Weber, precisely and precisely - on religious grounds. If from the standpoint of the Protestant to commit an immoral act means to be cursed forever, to burn in a fire hell in hell (Dante Alighieri "Divine Comedy" can choose for himself the option), then Orthodoxy is the most vile of all Christian denominations.
I sinned, took the tenth dive, he let you sins and went on to sin. From this abomination follows the principle of immoral behavior, carries with it an environment of mutual distrust, suspicion and fear. Hence the fundamental principle of Russian life - inequality, it is generated by vertical and interspecific competition.
The distinction also becomes significant when considering the private property market. The Protestant regards earned, suffered property as an attribute inseparable from his person, private property appears as an additional organ and to take it away is like pushing a person away from God, which is a grave sin. This is how the private property market emerged, civil and political institutions grew out of its protection.
In Russia there were markets of control and authority. Private property was introduced by Decree of Catherine 2, the Civil Code was adopted only by Nikolai Palkin. That is why Pushkin called the Romanovs revolutionaries.
But, as is known, the traditionalist reaction began, at first these were Kankrin reforms, then Bolshevism and the rudiments of the private property market were eliminated along with the bearers of this idea in their heads. The traditionalist reaction in Russia was always a religious movement.
Communism was perceived by these idiots as the realization of the Kingdom of God on earth. Should be sobornost (I wrote a few days ago about the parliamentary republic in Russia, one of the subscribers answered that it is not necessary, only the sobornost the future of Russia). We all together in one brilliant moment will become kind and honest, stop sinning, join hands and create the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth, and those who are not with us will be killed.
We also kill those who encroach on our idea, compete in a hierarchical structure and the bloody wheel rolled off. It is religious differences that led the developed world to where it is, they created a positive feedback from economic incentives and people could come to modern inclusive institutions.
Similarly, in Russia, religious delusions in the heads prevented the formation of modern institutions. Here to you and Max Weber!
On the first portrait of Karl Marx, on the second - Max Weber, both are taken from Google.
