yes this! also, i was a Lit major in the 80s and I remember wondering why so many of the trendy theories that infected the academy then (like "All books are political" or lots of jargon adding up to: "the goal of all books and all art should be Leftist social engineering") sounded suspiciously like Leninism and Maoism.... Now I realize that this style of thought was migrating from Marxism to American academia (smuggled in through the humanities) where after a few decades it escaped the lab and now infects the entire culture.