In another example, Weber talked of the spread of Calvinism and rational
thinking in Europe and eventual dominance of western culture. Marx had
a globalization theory of sorts too, which was more formally elaborated
by Lenin. He argued that the bourgeoisie (industrial class), in their search
for profits and extraction of surplus from the proletariat (working class),
would expand their geographical horizons drawing peripheral countries
into the system as providers of cheap labour and raw materials.