[LI] Marxist Wisconsin Professor Rakes In $170,000 Per Year Teaching About Inequality And OppressionThe University of Wisconsin-Madison offers a sociology course informing students that capitalism creates "a world of great misery, inequality and oppression" that "is irrational in ways that hurt nearly everyone."
Erik Olin Wright, the well-heeled professor who teaches the graduate-level course, rakes a sweet annual salary of $170,000 per year.
The MacIver Institute, a free-market think tank, obtained the syllabus for Wright’s course by way of a public records request. The course is entitled: "Class, State, and Ideology: An Introduction to Social Science in the Marxist Tradition."
The affluent professor’s course syllabus, which goes on -- and on -- for almost 80 pages, declares that capitalism "generates harms" and "generates injustices" which "can be broadly grouped under three rubrics: exploitation, domination and irrationality."
Marxism, on the other hand, is an "emancipatory social science" that seeks to "fulfill the goal of generating critical social scientific knowledge relevant to the task of challenging systems of oppression."
"Human emancipation" is the goal of Marxism, the fat-cat professor explains.