I am referring to both Marxism and Marcuse's version, Critical Theory.
Anyone with a good high school diploma from the 1960s and a year of Sunday school as a teenager ought to have been able to see through and refute the complete fallacy of Marxism/CT.
Why did this not happen at the university level?
Because the agents of Marxism/CT know it is false, but they foist it on people because it is such an easy sell: Appeals to every undignified, shameful, sinful aspect of the dark human side: Envy, atheism, licentiousness, pride, gluttony, greed, anger, laziness.
Marxism and CT would have been a nonstarter had mankind just maintained a modicum of intact education about Western Civilization and about the Almighty.
But lacking that environment, Marx/CT grew like a weed from 1880 to the present time.
2024 is the first real reversal of its ascendancy, IMHO. The election of 47 and the Fifth Great Awakening, the recent demise of Woke, Political Correctness, Cancel Culture, WEF dominance, and the Rat Party are NOT small things; they are monumental things in the history of the world since our Civil War.
Most of the universities see themselves (errantly) as refuges from gritty reality. The last thing they would do is come to terms with the fact there are intrinsically evil ideas out there and act on it. They think themselves to be above such considerations.