University of Florida Strips Marx’s Name From Library Study Room

A man walks past boards celebrating 200 years of Karl Marx's birth in Trier, Germany on May 3, 2018. Photo by Patrik Stollarz/AFP via Getty Images

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.”