Abstract Western management academic research has always emphasized its academic position of science in the past half century. However, in my view, it is not a pure science as western scholars have claimed because of its nature of class. In this paper, five scholars and their academic positions will be discussed and the paper will tell us that the economic base of the capitalism has played an important role in the formation of western management science. Some scholars, such as Frederic Taylor and Henri Fayol, are important in the history of western management science, because their theories have been complied with the economic base of the capitalism. On the contrary, though Mary Parker Follett and Oliver Sheldon are famous for their profound thinking, they have been marginalized in the history of western management science, because their thinking was against the economic base of the capitalism. So western management is not a science like physics, it is a part of the capitalism ideology.
