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Why is it that so many philosophy students tend to be marxists while most economics students seem to not take him seriously?
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A lot of economics students have never read Marx, and if they have, it was probably in a single course on the history of economics in which they rushed Smith, Ricardo, Marx, and Keynes all in one go.

 Also, Marx was doing his work in political economy when it was still largely a discursive discipline--writing essays, telling stories, that kind of thing. It was only around the time of Marx's death that political economy gave way to the modern "science" of economics, with its formulae, charts, and other non-discursive modes of doing work.

And also, as many have mentioned here, a *lot* of philosophy students are not Marxist at all.