The Epoch Times by Bill Pan
The University of Florida has removed the name of “Communist Manifesto” author Karl Marx from a library study room after it gained media attention.
According to a March 7 report by Campus Reform, the public university had one of its 14 group study rooms at the George A. Smathers Libraries named “Karl Marx Study Room.” In a photo publicized by the education news site, Marx’s name is inscribed on a plaque at the room’s entrance, with a short passage describing him as a “philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary critic of all that exists.”
The description further credited Marx as being the “founder of scientific socialism” whose “reputation as a radical thinker” emerged during the rise of the socialist political parties in the 1870s and 1880s and for laying the foundation of socialist and communist movements around the world…
