Marx as a Student In University, Karl Marx's Political Economics professor noted that every day, the young man would get up halfway through class and walk out, which caused a good deal of disruption. The professor quickly grew tired of the daily distraction, and so one day, as Marx stood up and prepared to leave, the professor stopped lecturing and turned to him. ""I am curious, Mr. Marx, what it is about my teaching you find so intolerable that you cannot sit through more than half of any given…