Wikipedia here (at least right now lol):
Harris's economic philosophy was critical of mainstream economics and
questioned orthodox assumptions. He was once erroneously described as a
"Marxist scholar".[15]
15. [Barry, Ellen (August 21, 2020). "Kamala Harris's father, a footnote in her speeches, is a prominent economist". The New York Times. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
Despite
his low profile in the election cycle, Dr. Harris is not an obscure
figure. He was the first Black scholar to receive tenure in Stanford’s economics department, and a prominent critic of mainstream economic theory from the left. The Stanford Daily, reporting in 1976,
described him as a “Marxist scholar,” and said there was some
opposition to granting him tenure because he was “too charismatic, a
pied piper leading students astray from neo-Classical economics.”
In the 1970s "Marxians" flew under the banner of "heterodox economics" to avoid opprobrium, and were promoted by entities such as the Union for Radical Political Economics which promoted Harris at Stanford, and, um, Harris' students in 1974 sure thought he was one, lol:
