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Why do Marxist ideas seem to be more accepted in the many social sciences except for economics?
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It might help to specify which of Marx's ideas you mean. Do you mean Marx's economic theory specifically or his ideas more generally?

More generally, social scientists have found Marx useful for thinking about a wide range of social phenomena such as alienation, commodity fetishism, ideology, etc. 

One simple reason that Marx's ideas are studied more in social science departments is because social scientists often study these sorts of phenomena while economists study other things.