lol if you think that many academics have read even half of everything Marx wrote
The ranks of academia are filled with people who:
- Describe themselves as socialists
- Speak admiringly of Marxism & agree with Marx on about 95% of everything he wrote
- Constantly use Marxist ideas in their research
- Constantly teach Marxist ideas in their classrooms
- Aggressively defend the stature of Marx as an intellectual figure to the point that they take personal offense over even minor slights to his reputation
...and yet adamantly insist that they are not, personally, Marxists.
One implication is that survey measures of Marxists in academia almost certainly *understate* the ubiquity of Marxist ideology on campus.