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Max Weber's theories on Protestantism being the cause of success in America have been pretty much thoroughly debunked when you control for differences in aptitude amongst the religious sects that arrived to America in it's early history. Not to mention his work led to the founding ideas of the Frankfurt School lol.

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This post is just a bunch of nonsense.

His theories on the Protestant ethic are controversial[1], but hardly "thoroughly debunked." As far as the Frankfurt School, uh, who cares? They drew from many political and social philosophies (including Marx who we often find at odds with Weber). It just seems completely uncharitable and tangential to bring it up.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/08/29/is_the_prot...

Bringing them up in a negative way is usually used as a dogwhistle for people that believe in the "cultural Marxism" conspiracy.

While Weber over-stated his case, he has definitely not been "debunked". Check out _Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Reformation_ by Becker et al[0], it's a survey of the literature and contains a lot of empirical evidence in support of the Weberian view of the Reformation.

[0] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d680/a29a28682b933d75e35d5a...

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