/lit/ - Literature

germany meetup when and where?

I don't understand what gets people going about the fact that some academic professors consider themselves marxist or use marxist doctrine to analyze stuff. Like yeah, your professor for sociology is a marxist. And? Did you expect them to cater to your libertarian ideas instead or what?
People act like Marx was just some lefty whose ideas are now used to propagate communism among scholars. Do they realize that that he's the most well-known and most controversial economist ever, and that his ideas influenced probably the most radical change in the course of civilization? How is one NOT supposed to talk about Marx given that context? Or are we supposed to block out all thinkers who do not agree with "our" values?
His analysis of capitalism is something that anyone, regardless of their ideology could agree on or at least find insight in, and das Kapital is much more nuanced than 90% of pop-economic theory that conservatives try to shill. I don't see any problem whatsoever with a marxist professor. In fact, isn't that actually perfectly logical since academia is also supposed to question the country's status quo, which is neoliberal capitalism in most western countries?
Also, let's not forget to mention that most thinkers in the humanities were not "left-wing" and we still learn about their ideas - yet I rarely see anybody complain about conservative thinkers. Apparently it's only considered propaganda when the thinker in question was a socialist/communist. Really makes me think that this whole idea of cultural marxism and marxist academia is blown way out of proportion.