domination."11
Max Weber (1864 1920) shared certain tenets with Marxism.
Weber saw politics and life as a "struggle between nations,
classes, and individuals for power and authority."12He did
not subscribe to Marx's maxim that the end justified the means,
but he acknowledged that in politics "the attainment of 'good'
is bound to the fact that one must be willing to pay the price
of using morally dubious means."13He was also something of an
imperialist, arguing that in foreign affairs, "only Herrenvoelker
[master nations] may feel called upon to manipulate the spokes of
international developments."14He supported Imperial Germany's
policies of expansion as long as they produced results.
In most respects, Weber sharply disagreed with Marx.
As a sociologist, he proceeded empirically from his observations
of the individual man, his atomic building block, and his social relationships and i
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