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Politics as a Vocation From Wikisource Politics as a Vocation by Max Weber Published as "Politik als Beruf,"Gesammelte Politische Schrif ten (Muenchen, 1921), pp. 396 450. Originally a speech at Munich University , 1918, published in 1919 by Duncker & Humblodt, Munich. From Gerth and C. Wright Mills (Translated and edited), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, pp. 77 128, New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. This lecture, which I give at your request, will necessarily disappoint you in a number of ways. You will naturally expect me to take a position on actual problems of the day. But that will be the case only in a purely formal way and toward the end, when I shall raise certain questions concerning the significance of political action in the whole way of life. In today's lecture, all questions that refer to what policy and what content one should give one's political activity must be eliminated.
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