University of Pittsburgh Offers Multiple Courses on Marxism, Marxist Ideology
“contemporary attempts at rethinking Marxism”
Where do all these young people keep getting the crazy idea that communism is a good thing?
Campus Reform reports:
University of Pittsburgh curriculum features several classes on Marxism, including class on ‘racialized police violence’ and racial capitalism
The University of Pittsburgh offers a number of courses focused on left-wing narratives and ideologies, including Marxism.
Current course offerings for the 2026-27 academic year include classes such as “Marxism and Its Legacy,” offered by the Department of Political Science, which examines “the original sources of Marxism,” as well as “friendly amendments from Lenin, Gramsci, Cedric Robinson, Martha Gimenez” and “various developments in the theory of Marxism.”
Another course in the Department of German, titled “Marx and Marxism,” studies the effects of Marx and his work on the world, as well as “contemporary attempts at rethinking Marxism.”
“Having recently passed the 150th anniversary of the publication of capital volume 1, we recognize that our world has changed a great deal since its publication,” the description states. “Yet, in reviewing many of these changes, it is not overstated to say that the works of Karl Marx have provided the transformational impulse. Who was this person, Karl Marx? Why is it that in this post-cold war world his writings continue both to inspire and threaten contemporary readers?”
The philosophy department also teaches a course simply titled “Marx,” which examines “the philosophy of Marx and his place in the history of philosophy.”
The department has offered several courses in the past pertaining to Marx and his ideology, such as “19th Century Philosophy,” which reviewed “the thought and unity of the three great German philosophers of the nineteenth century; Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche.”
“Marxist Philosophy” was an advanced undergraduate course that studied “the philosophical views of Marx and other Marxist thinkers, particularly those concerning economic theory, society, government, and history.”
One of the department’s courses previously intertwined feminist ideas with Marxism. In “Feminist Philosophies,” students learned about the “biological, psychological, and economic theories of the nature and causes of the oppression of women” through the study of individuals such as Marx, Freud, and Veblen.
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“the original sources of Marxism,” as well as “friendly amendments from Lenin, Gramsci, Cedric Robinson, Martha Gimenez” and “various developments in the theory of Marxism.”
All the intellectually captured “natural philosophers” continuing to propose more and more deferents and epicycles to explain why the motions of the planets (societies) stubbornly defy their pet theories, while years prior, Copernicus had revealed conclusively that geocentrism had no clothes.