The University of Florida has removed the name of “Communist Manifesto” author Karl Marx from a library study room after it gained media attention. According to a March 7 report by Campus Reform, the public university had one of its 14 group study rooms at the George A. Smathers Libraries named “Karl Marx Study Room.” In a photo publicized by the education news site, Marx’s name is inscribed on a plaque at the room’s entrance, with a short passage describing him as a “philosopher, radical economist, and revolutionary critic of all that exists.” The description further credited Marx as being the “founder of scientific socialism” whose “reputation as a radical thinker” emerged during the rise of the socialist political parties in the 1870s and 1880s and for laying the foundation of socialist and communist movements around the world. “The unique extent of the influence of Marx’s materialist explanation of the …