[lbo-talk] John Y. Christopher

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 8 07:49:52 PST 2006


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>That is too Freudian to my taste. My take on it is that all that drippy New
>Age stuff - and for that matter over the counter pacifism in general - means
>jack shit, since aggression arises mainly from social interaction rather
>than from psychological or mental predispositions.

What kind of bogus distinction is that? Aggressive dispositions can arise in large part from early social interactions, and are either reinforced or discouraged by later social interactions? What's a family but a social interaction?

Doug



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