Why do Marxists and communists not get pilloried the way the alt-right do? Because Marxists and communists are defined by economic beliefs, while the alt-right are defined by hate. Alt-right isn't a synonym for far-right or ultra-conservative. It's nothing to do with economics at all. Its characteristics are an embrace of racism, white nationalism, homophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and the idolization of hate-mongers like Richard Spencer. Tiki-torches, Charlottesville, "very fine people".
The proof is in the pudding though. Fascism has led to many millions of deaths, but communism has led to even more, to around 100 million for most estimates, more than all the deaths in WWII, and mostly because of their "economic beliefs".
Though Marxism is different than Marxism-Leninism or Maoism. Never met a Leninist prof. But I doubt a Marxist-Leninist speaker would get banned or booted or shouted down despite the mass death & horror of their ideas. The point is, far-right and far-left are filled with equally horrible ideas, but are treated with a double-standard in our society and in universities.
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