ABSTRACT
The primary assertion of this paper is that behavioral geography, like location theory, cultural geography and even 'socially relevant' geography, is just one more instance of bourgeois thought: of the world conceived as a totality of things interacting in external cause-and-effect relations. This ontological and epistemological position is characterized as 'bourgeois' because, on the one hand, it is grounded in capitalist social relations experienced as things, and because, on the other hand, the practical implication of this 'bourgeois' consciousness is the preservation of capitalist social relations and, consequently, the characteristic appearances in which they present themselves to the world: bourgeois thought and capitalist practice mutually presuppose and produce one another.
