The results are in for the hack writer Karl Marx...

Editor's note: ...and his financier Friedrich Engels and their creation of cultural Marxism: total failure. Engels supported Marx because "they shared a lifelong political and intellectual partnership aimed at developing and promoting revolutionary communism/scientific socialism." Marx's economic theory is a catastrophic intellectual failure because its core claims were falsified by reality at every turn. The labor theory of value is nonsense: prices are set by subjective marginal utility and scarcity, not by hours of toil, which is why diamonds cost (a total marketing scam of "engineered scarcity" set in motion by DeBeers) more than water and why markets allocate resources far better than any planner. His prediction that capitalism would progressively impoverish the working class collapsed as real wages, life expectancy, and living standards exploded under market systems. The supposed iron tendency of the rate of profit to fall never produced the terminal crisis he promised. Worse, every serious attempt to implement his "scientific" vision required the abolition of private property and market prices, instantly destroying the information and incentives needed for rational production, and delivered only shortages, stagnation, mass famines, and police states. Far from liberating humanity, Marxism repeatedly produced the most efficient engines of poverty and tyranny the modern world has seen. And that was the intended consequences out of the City of London as the nexus of central banking all along. America is "reaping the benefits" of cultural Marxism...the US Government was indeed using Marxism as a precursor to fascism.
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WOKE FAILURE: More Than 3,000 University of California Professors Demand Return of SAT After "Equity" Experiment Leaves Incoming Students Unable to Do Basic Math

By Jim Hᴏft | August 8, 2026 | 558 Comments

The University of California's grand experiment with "equity" in college admissions is running headfirst into an inconvenient reality: thousands of professors say incoming students are showing up without the basic academic skills needed to handle university coursework.

UC ditched standardized testing requirements in 2020, first going test-optional amid the COVID panic and then fully test-blind, all in the name of "equity."

Regents claimed the tests discriminated against students of color and lower-income applicants, even though a faculty task force had found the opposite: the SAT and ACT were strong predictors of college success and actually helped identify talented disadvantaged students who might otherwise have been overlooked. The data was ignored. Ideology won.

Six years later, the results are in and they are catastrophic.

According to the LA Times, more than 3,000 UC faculty, including STEM professors and department chairs, have signed open letters demanding the return of the tests.

At UC San Diego, a faculty report documented a roughly 30-fold surge between 2020 and 2025 in incoming freshmen whose math skills tested below high school level.

Of those, about 70% fell below middle school levels, reaching roughly one in twelve students in the entering class. Professors report having to reteach basic arithmetic and algebra while trying to deliver college material.

At UC Berkeley, math professor Zvezdelina Stankova described an astonishing encounter with calculus students who struggled with the elementary algebra equation: 7x – 5 = 9.

The professors warn that the "test-blind" experiment has flooded classrooms with unprepared students, drained teaching resources, and threatens the value of UC degrees. Former UC President Janet Napolitano, who pushed the original elimination, now says the six-year experiment "needs to be revisited."

Here is the full transcription of the letter:

To the UC Regents, UCOP, Academic Senate leadership, and the people of California:

We write as University of California mathematics faculty, joined by faculty from other STEM disciplines. UC has long served students from every background and has been a powerful engine of social mobility for the people of California.

That public trust must be protected for future generations. Today, UC's mission is at risk. To preserve that mission:

We call for the reinstatement of the SAT/ACT mathematics requirement for applicants to STEM majors beginning with the 2027 admissions cycle, alongside STEM faculty oversight of readiness standards and admissions practices affecting those majors.

Over the past five years, we have seen a widening divergence in mathematical preparation levels within the same classroom. This trend indicates that current admissions practices do not provide a sufficiently reliable check on mathematical readiness for STEM majors.

The UC San Diego Senate–Administration Workgroup on Admissions report documents this crisis in stark terms: in the last five years, the number of students whose mathematics skills fall below high school level increased nearly thirtyfold; moreover, 70% of those students fall below middle school levels, reaching roughly one in twelve members of the entering cohort.

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