My lecturer in Economics in the 90's once went on a pre-lecture aside that was summed up with "Please, don't buy Country Road - they are sweatshop / child labour abusers, and you are basically wearing their guilt - trust me it is a bad look. "
It was about as Left leaning as he ever got. (And he was right.)
My Military History lecturer, a ranking LTCol later MAJGEN, was scathing in his summation of many governments of either persuasion.
