Karl Marx is a well-known identify in historical past books, however he's now not talked about in a single classroom on the College of Florida.
Marx was one among greater than a dozen historic people whose identify was etched on varied classrooms on the college. However after Campus Reformreported on March 7 that the Marx classroom drew ire from college students, the nameplate has been eliminated altogether.
The previous "Karl Marx Group Examine Room 229" seats two to 12 college students in Library West of George A. Smathers Libraries. An inscription that previously existed beneath the Marx nameplate referred to Marx as a "thinker, radical economist and revolutionary critic" who's well known because the founding father of scientific socialism.
Marx is probably going most famed for his work The Communist Manifesto, written alongside Friedrich Engels in 1848, which touches on social lessons and the way capitalism would ultimately get replaced by socialism.
Campus Reform reported that different teachers within the realms of literature, politics, philosophy and science have classrooms named after them, together with Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglas, Martin Luther King Jr., Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Mahatma Gandhi, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Abraham H. Maslow, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Margaret Mead.
"Given present occasions in Ukraine and elsewhere on the planet, we decided it was acceptable to take away the identify of Karl Marx that was positioned on a gaggle classroom on the College of Florida in 2014," College of Florida spokesperson Steve Orlando instructed Newsweek.
He added that the names on the opposite classrooms haven't been eliminated, and no new names have been added in Marx's place.
The choice to take away Marx's nameplate after about eight years drew blended reactions, notably on Twitter.
"The College of Florida determined to vary the identify of a room in one of many libraries from the Karl Marx Studying Room, because of the invasion of Ukraine...let thank sink in for a second if it does not instantly make you query what sort of 'increased studying' is happening right here," tweeted a consumer named @Red_Ranson.
Marx's upbringing has triggered many reactions, attributable to him being born in Trier in what's now Germany.
"College of Florida simply eliminated the Communist Manifesto writer, Karl Marx, from their library," tweeted @AdetolaOlutosin. "They claimed the choice was taken in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. What did Marx do? He was German and never even remotely Russian. Do People learn?"
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