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that's funny.. i'm fairly certain in the 5 years i was in college there wasn't a single goddamned professor on campus that knew anything about Marx, including my sociology professor who constantly railed on the state of the US and had then had us read Weber as if protestantism explained it all.
college was the most disillusioning thing ever. i truly thought it was where you go to learn real true things that you just won't find outside of that setting, but it was just more horseshit shoveled by clueless gluttons who just want tenure.
The consequence of privatisation of education.
There's a reason the west is falling behind.
I had one bold teacher that dared to teach Marxist analysis of literature as part of the coursework. Even saying the fucking name got some very brave trust fund kids clicking their tongues and other catty reactions, but she assured the class that it's just about finding the class relations (and almost inevitably, struggles) in any given piece of literature. Still made them pissy and petulant, especially the petite bourgeoisie faildaughters that just wanted to re-read Pride and Prejudice, again, and submit the same paper about it to a new teacher. Again.
No need to call out the entire English department like that lmao
I had one closeted marxist professor in 1990's but she mostly did not tell anything because being openly marxist in Polish university after 1989 might easily led to abrupt end of being university employee. A lot of her colleagues were also professional opportunists former "marxists" that turned to be most insufferable christoliberals the moment the eagle got a crown.
I got to read Marx's Capital over a period of two courses and that wasn't even officially the subject matter Lmao.
But most of my courses seemed to be taught by libs.