Religion and Property: A Simplistic Conception of the American Capitalist Doctrine

Protestant ethics gives the explanation that mentalities, values and beliefs influence economic behavior. More precisely, this conception defends the idea that the ethics linked to the religion of the various American Protestant Calvinist sensibilities has affinities with the development of capitalism. For Protestants, religion is not a factor of dematerialization but rather a means for man to increase his material goods. The question is whether with the experience of capitalism as we know it today, we can say that religious morality is applied or is it on the contrary a new formula of exploitation having very little to do with religious principles. With this image, capitalism today has become an amoral and brutal system that sees only individual merit in the success of some and cowardice or lack of resilience in the failure of others. It is as if there were not some major structural factors that came to condition the success of some and the un