Marxism is hostile to economics, teaching nonsensical concepts such as labor theory of value (which falsely says an object’s value is based on the amount of time spent on creating it, even if the object turns out to be worthless and unusable for any purpose).
But the University of Utah has Marxist professors. One example is economics professor Marshall Steinbaum, who insults normal people on social media, denies basic axioms of economics, and advocates harmful restrictions on people building homes and improving their lives.
Campus Reform reports:
The University of Utah’s Department of Economics claims to prepare students for a wide variety of economics-related careers, yet it appears to place an emphasis on promoting left-wing political ideologies.
The department has gained a reputation over the years for the amount of time dedicated to teaching students about Marxism. An article published in 2018 in The Daily Utah Chronicle stated that it “has been labeled a center of Marxist thought” and that its “Marxist characterization has been documented by numerous publications.”
One doctoral student told the Chronicle that nearly everything in the department is “built on Marxism.”…The department offers a host of other courses related to left-wing social and economic thought, such as “Feminist Economics” and “Capitalism and Socialism.” In the latter course, students must write a term paper on a topic from the class, for which the syllabus provides examples such as “Why did Capitalism exhibit a growing inequality during the 2000s?,” “What mechanisms are necessary for overcoming the capitalist system?,” and “Can our society be organized as socialist?”
The University of Utah also offered a graduate-level course in “Marxian Economics.”
Utah residents are not Marxists, for the most part. Utah is slightly more pro-free-market than the average state, ranking 23rd in one study, and higher in another.
Yet Utah residents’ tax dollars have been used to promote Marxism.
Even in red states like Utah, leftism is common in schools. School officials, teachers, and union officials in Utah were caught on video boasting about how they teach critical race theory and LGBTQ concepts to high-school students, despite Utah’s bans on CRT in the classroom, reported Accuracy in Media.
The Utah legislature passed two resolutions to ban CRT from schools in 2022, and the State Board of Education approved restrictions on teaching CRT years ago, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. But pro-CRT Utah teachers circumvented these restrictions by teaching the same concepts under different rubrics, such as “Social-Emotional Learning” (SEL). So they still indoctrinated students in their ideology.
That happened in places like Utah’s Jordan School District. Michelle Love-Day, Director of Culture and Diversity at Jordan, explained how her staff get around the rules by only telling parents what wokeness they taught kids after the fact, as a way of avoiding complaints that could prevent the teaching from taking place. “There was, like, loopholes with it that it just goes back to the LEA [Local Education Agency] for equity and for things. And so, our … whenever our team goes out we don’t do an opt-out prior to,” Love-Day said. “They just go out, meet the kids, work with them. We operate like a math department. And then we give a letter after they go out, saying, ‘We were in your school and this is what they talked about.’”
