Max Weber was the most prestigious academic social
scientist in the world until he died in 1920.
Schumpeter expressed happiness regarding the Russian Revolution. The USSR
would be a test case for socialism. Weber warned that this would cause untold
misery. Schumpeter replied: "That may well be, but it would be a good
laboratory." Weber responded: "A laboratory heaped with human corpses!"
Schumpeter retorted: "Every anatomy classroom is the same thing." (Felix Somary,
The
Raven of Zurich [New York: St. Martin's, 1986], p. 121.)
