*<i>DISCLAIMER: I think both are abhorrent*</i><p>Have they just abstracted the deaths that lead from Marxist thinking and ignored them? Surely one could make the same argument for fascism. I am genuinely curious, because my university certainly won't give me the answer, nor the student union.
This of course is a lightning rod, but I'll give me perspective.<p>At a high level, Marxism is not the antithesis of Fascism, it is more so the antithesis of Capitalism. As such we might expect there to be plenty of influence in higher education for Capitalistic and Marxist thought given they are at least partially grounded in the economics of allocation of scarce resources.<p>Fascism has little grounding in economic theory nor in fostering discussions on how to allocate scarce resources. At some level Fascism offers no room for enlighten discussion at all. Fascism is a form of authoritarian ultra-nationalism that is inconsistent with contemporary higher education.<p>As such, we might reasonably expect that we might find Marxist and Capitalistic "societies" but not Fascist ones at universities. Even then, I imagine that many who would join a Marxist society actually believe and advocate for a form of cooperative socialism not a revolutionary one and stop well short of Communism.