Early in Tuesday’s debate, former President Donald J. Trump attacked Vice President Kamala Harris by tying her to her father.
“She’s a Marxist — everybody knows she’s a Marxist,” Mr. Trump said. “Her father is a Marxist professor in economics, and he taught her well.”
Ms. Harris has repeatedly made clear that she supports capitalism. But her father, Donald J. Harris, a renowned economist who has been a fleeting figure in her life, has been described as a “Marxist scholar.”
Marxism refers to the political, social and economic theories of Karl Marx, practiced as socialism or communism.
Dr. Harris was the first Black scholar to receive tenure in Stanford’s economics department and a prominent critic of mainstream economic theory from the left. The Stanford Daily, the university’s student newspaper, reporting in 1976, said that there was some opposition to granting…
