Уроки протестантской этики в условиях посткапитализма
Lessons of Protestant Ethics under Post-Capitalism Conditions

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents a reflection of the values of Protestant ethics singled out by M. Weber that have been transformed under the conditions of modern post-capitalism. The reasons for repeated changes in the attitude to labor during the history of the West European civilization are identified. Labor used to be treated as either curse or divine punishment in the Middle Ages. Protestant ethics defined labor as an important value of the human life. Hegel and Marx understood labor as the source of human life, abstract thinking, as well as aesthetic and moral feelings. In the late 20th – 21st centuries, the scornful and hostile attitude to labor as to shameful and even criminal occupation has developed in Western Europe and Russia. This attitude is addressed to the cumulative activity of workers creating the mass productive force of society rather than to the individual taken separately. This ideological move hides the bumper profit source of modern corporations from the naive researcher.

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