Karl Marx Now Fourth Most Commonly Assigned College Textbook Author

“Marxism is dead everywhere except American universities.” That was the wry joke told after the Soviet Union fell in 1991, ending a century in which 100 million people were killed in the name of communism. But 34 years later, communism has spread from the fringes of academia into mainstream education.

According to Open Syllabus, an online open-source platform that catalogs millions of college syllabi, Karl Marx, the father of communism, is now the fourth most commonly assigned author in the database.

Marx appears in roughly 28,895 college syllabi. The only authors assigned more commonly were Michael Foucault (a French Communist who developed his own brand of leftist post-modernism), William Shakespeare (an English playwright widely regarded as one of the greatest poets) and James Stewart (a mathematician).

Communist Manifesto: Marx’s Manifesto of the Communist Party is the 13th-most assigned book. The first 12 books are on technical topics, so the Communist Manifesto is the most assigned college political or history text.

Of course, a few references to the Communist Manifesto in college syllabi may come from history classes where the information is useful. But most of these assignments are undoubtedly from political science classes teaching that many of Marx’s theories are valid.

Whether people like to admit it or not, Marxism is now the dominant model of history and society being taught in American universities.

Embracing socialism: Under labels like “post-colonialism,” “anti-neoliberalism” and “social justice,” professors are teaching that the United States’ narrative about individual liberty and limited government is a mask for the power of wealthy, white, European males. They tout alternative histories like Howard Zinn’s Marxist-inspired textbook A People’s History of the United States.

• This is why college-age students are increasingly embracing socialism over capitalism and backing Palestinian terrorists over democratic Israelis.

Foretold crisis: The late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote about this crisis in education in the 1980s. In Mystery of the Ages, he wrote:

Higher education during the 20th century has come, with virtual unanimity, to accept the evolutionary theory. … Higher education contemptuously ignores, without any consideration whatsoever, the biblical truths revealing man’s presence on the Earth and the causes of the present state of civilization. Education in the civilized world today has become entirely materialistic. Education has become a combination of the agnosticism of evolution, the politics and economics of Karl Marx, and the morals and social patterns of Sigmund Freud. Higher education remains in utter ignorance of the mystery of mankind and of human civilization.

That is a great summary of U.S. academia today.

Charles Darwin developed a theory that postulates that creation does not require a Creator, Karl Marx developed a theory that paradise does not require a Messiah, and Sigmund Freud developed a theory that mental healing does not require the Holy Spirit. The various derivatives of their theories now completely dominate academia and are destroying the nation.

Learn more: Read “Meet the Founders of Modern Education.”