NYU Offering Course on Marxism Through ‘Intellectual Traditions’ of ‘Feminists’ and ‘Trans People’
“By reading Marx from perspectives often considered marginal to or derivative of economic class, we will trace the answers to this question through historical periods and contexts”
Un Marxism, feminism, and transgenderism in one course? This is progressive higher education in a nutshell.
The College Fix reports:
NYU offers course on Marxism through ‘intellectual traditions’ of ‘feminists’, ‘trans people’
New York University students will study “Marxism through the intellectual traditions of people of color, people from colonized and formerly colonized places, feminists, and queer and trans people” next school year.
One education expert told The Fix the course, set for spring 2026, offers a “skewed perspective” and lacks “intellectual diversity.”
The goal of this course is to address whether “the historical formations of race, sex, and sexuality derive from political economy” or “these historical formations constitute the substance of class itself,” according to the course description.
“By reading Marx from perspectives often considered marginal to or derivative of economic class, we will trace the answers to this question through historical periods and contexts,” the description states.
Students will read left-leaning sources from authors such as Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, and Kevin Floyd, among others.
“Considering the reading assignments, this course appears to lack any sort of intellectual diversity,” Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow Jonathan Butcher told The Fix via email.
“Students should be warned that they will be getting a skewed perspective of a philosophy that inspired destructive political movements in the Soviet Union and China—resulting in the deaths of millions upon millions of innocent people,” he said.
Further, Butcher said the course “appears to be soft-pedaling critical race theory, queer theory, and decolonization—all worldviews resulting in censorship that have no ultimate goals except for the overthrow of existing authorities.”
“Once the revolution is complete, there is no additional step,” he said.
This course will be offered through NYU’s Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement department. It will be taught by Professor Emma Heaney, “a scholar of comparative literature, feminist studies, and trans studies,” according to the school’s website.
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If people want to teach or study this crap, they can. But not one penny of government money should go toward subsidizing it. Give NYU the Harvard treatment.
The fact that this course even exists shows that everyone involved has no shame whatsoever.
NYU still has respected MBA school right?
Otherwise left wing booby hatch.