TY - JOUR A1 - Loewy, Min T1 - Anticapitalist Readings of Weber’s Protestant Ethic Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, György Lukács, Erich Fromm JF - International Conference for Religion and Politics in the Secular World, October 10, 2009, Shanghai, China, in Proceedings of the International Conference for Religion and Politics in the Secular World. N2 - This paper will try to analyze a curious intellectual phenomena: a group of Jewish-German authors that developed, during the Weimar Republic, a radical anti-capitalist and anti-protestant argument, directly inspired by Weber’s Protestant Ethic. They did not hesitate to denounce capitalism as a sort of diabolic religion (Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin), or as the product of the evil ethical tendencies of Calvinism (Ernst Bloch, Erich Fromm). Y1 - 2009 ER -