Re: Harris

JAMES BENTHALL (st26h@rosie.uh.edu)
15 May 1995 17:09 CDT

In article <rspear.447.006E1319@primenet.com>, rspear@primenet.com (Richard Spear) writes...
>Harris is hardly a Marxist. Marxists acknowledge praxis ... directed human
>action that is motivated by things (ideas) outside of environmental pressures
>or mere billiard ball reactions. Harris is a Functionalist. This is perhaps
>the fatal flaw.

Quite true. Harris is much more mechanistic than Marx.

james