That Evil Soviet Empire was no more the embodiment of the pure socialist model than we are of a democratic republic.
Nothing wrong with theories, they're never evil. It's the warped application of theory that starts the gloom & doom.
And as far as Academia being a bastion of Leftist thought ....HOOOOEY!!!

The Federalist Society is in power at every A list Law school in the country, so how can anything that puts a saintly Halo around Ken Starr be
leftist!?!?!