I just had the first day of class and he kept going on about how he prefers to call capitalism "the free market" and kept calling covid the "Chinese communist virus". Which is weird to me because he is familiar with Marx and some of his lecture talked about modes of production, etc.
I'm debating whether I want to keep taking the class or not; on the one hand I think it's good to be exposed to different perspectives for the sake of critical thinking, but on the other hand I don't want to waste my time and money taking a class from a professor who is so blatantly biased and wastes so much time in class sharing his political opinions.
Just read or listen to Debt: The First 5000 Years
Graeber has a couple wack ideas and goes on very little sometimes. He also wrote some theory where he cited a documentary series as his source for ideas usually credited to Sartre. He's a weird dude, and Polyani and Sahlins are probably a better starting place for specifically an anthro major.