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Wisconsin Professor Who Allegedly Teaches Anti-Capitalist Course Makes over $170,000 a year

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Professor Erik Olin Wright, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, teaches a course on capitalism. However, he allegedly teaches anti-capitalist rhetoric in that course.

Wright makes $170,000 as a tenured professor, per a recent public records request. If he truly dislikes capitalism, would he share his salary with the poor and homeless?

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