Max Weber Politics as a Vocation

"The leadership of a state or of a party by men who (in the economic sense of the word) live exclusively for politics and not off politics means necessarily a ‘plutocratic’ [rule of the wealthy, after the Roman god of wealth and the underworld, Pluto—Prof.] recruitment of the leading political strata. To be sure, this does not mean that such plutocratic leadership signifies at the same time that the politically dominant strata will not also seek to live ‘off’ politics, and hence that the dominant stratum will not usually exploit their political domination in their own economic interest"  (pp. 85-6)






This passage is telling us how a person that want to be in politics should think about politics, that will like to make thing better for the good of the people. its very clear the stamen his trying to put in the reading about this part of the reading. If a man that is willing to be a politic vacation to his country for the economy, their purpose is to fix thing, to do good to the state and not created this bad habit of living off the politics power. People sometimes see the power that one can obtain and really forget what was the purpose of them being involve in politics matters. In which I believe is one of the major problems of the world we live in know. Politics take advantage of the power that is giving to them in such way, that its no longer about the society or the nation it becomes living for themselves. There is were politics fail on doing the best for the nation.      

The German Revalution Of 1918

"Business thrives in the ruins. Cities become piles of ruins; villages become cemeteries; countries, deserts; populations are beggared; churches, horse stalls. International law, treaties and alliances, the most sacred words and the highest authority have been torn in shreds. Every sovereign “by the grace of God” is called a rogue and lying scoundrel by his cousin on the other side. Every diplomat is a cunning rascal to his colleagues in the other party. Every government sees every other as dooming its own people and worthy only of universal contempt. There are food riots in Venice, in Lisbon, Moscow, Singapore. There is plague in Russia, and misery and despair everywhere."


This passage tell us how bad the War world had done not only to the countries that were mainly involve in it but to other parts of that world that had to live to the disaster of this madness that was going on. "Villages becoming cemeteries" is clearly that the War was becoming a death sentence to everybody, people that was against it and people that did agree with it. it seem like there was no way out of this rage that was taking over. There was no real loyalty coming from any direction, people will make agreements and brake them as soon as an opportunity to take over come alone. Even thought thing are not as bad now as they were back then, however politic is not that great now either. In many countries there still no help what so ever so the people. No health coverage, Not enough Food, No healthy water, Really bad diseases and many other things that the politics should be taking care of.