Re: Harris
Gil Hardwick (gil@landmark.iinet.net.au)
Fri, 19 May 1995 09:13:47 GMT
In article <15MAY199517091910@rosie.uh.edu>, JAMES BENTHALL (st26h@rosie.uh.edu) writes:
>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
>
Oh here, James. Good shot old boy.
Just take care that McCarthy and his SS brigade don't come down on
you all over again for daring to be at all familiar with the work of
(GASP) Karl Marx.
Let's merely hope that now we have them on the back foot spluttering
and apologising over their associations with the Hoover Institute, a
Window of Opportunity may open through which we are able to discuss
some anthropology here . . .
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