Now, when I read the work of commieprof I am appalled. Have things changed so much or was I merely young when I formed those opinions?
Both. You undoubtedly were filled with the typical idealism of youth, hence my earler quote about 18 and 40. More importantly, things really hae changed so much. When you were an undergraduate, most of the professors were liberals of the New Deal variety, with a few Marxists and socialists in the mix and a few conservatives. The graduate students were increasingly radical and Marxist taken as a whole. Those graduate students have spent the past 20-40 years becoming the full professors of today and raising several generations of Marxist and radical scholars. The result is what you see in commieprof, a reductio ad absurdam of the ideas you found entertaing and inventive 40 yearsa ago and the feminist and Marxist and politically correct trends I saw in graduate school some 30 years ago. The liberalism you knew 40 years ago bears the same resemblence to what currently passes for liberalism as a sailboat bears to a battleship.