. Weber wrote in response to Marx, with the intention of contradicting or reducing the materialist approach. . See Dialectical Materialism. . He saw that the major change was the rise of Protestantism, with values and beliefs which contributed to the industrial revolution. . He argued that the new values of Protestantism, frugality, independent thinking and self reliance, were values and attitudes necessary to the creation and growth of capitalist thinking and for actions necessary for the industrial revolution. . He appropriately titled his book as: The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism. . From our vantage point a century later, we can see that these different approaches, Marx and Weber, were not necessarily mutually exclusive, but could be complementary explanations. ..

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