Ironically, a lot of the French Marxist influence came through European academics we had admitted here as refugees during WWII. A lot of thanks we get!
It is a sad irony indeed. In my discipline (I won’t add any more detail on the web, even here), the Europeans who shaped it, in this country at least, were intellectual titans and staunchly anti-tyranny.
Their work shaped the discipline until the mid-1990s.
Thereafter, it’s been all post-structuralism or whatever iteration of it that is fashionable at the moment, all the time. I won’t participate in that “culture”, but have still managed to get my research published.
The traditional outlets for such research (read: research that searches for objective Truth) have dwindled to a scant few. There are, however, glimmers of hope outside of the echo-chamber.
We are few, but we’re out here!