"Universities are turning our youths into Marxists!"
Meanwhile my ecology professor is literally teaching that survival of the fittest is about genetic superiority and that evolution is about working towards that 'goal'. This is incorrect and bad science that is rooted in right-wing ideology that was disproven decades ago.
This is not what survival of the fittest means by the way. There is no such thing as a genetically superior being, as 'fitness' is totally subjective, as well as dependent on your environment. A lifeform that reproduces well in the ocean will still die if you put in the vacuum of space, no matter how 'fit' it was for ocean life. Not to mention the idea that nature has some sort of conscious goal is anthropomorthising a concept and again, bad science.
I really want to do something about this, but I feel like complaining will get me failed or known as a shit stirrer.
I fucking hate capitalist education.
On the plus side, our next lecture is on mutualism
The degree to which people become Marxist in or as a result of academia is almost entirely siloed off from any levers of power. If anything the mechanism is capturing people that might otherwise have led worker strikes, instead spending their lives applying Derrida to this or Foucault to that. Don't exile Lenin, give him a somewhat comfortable job where he feels like he's contributing to theory (but poses no threat to capital).