The sanitation movement that did so much for ending suffering caused by disease was as much a product of the humanities as it was science, and this is from an epidemiologist.
It is a fashion amongst many humanities people in the western world to criticize the western systems and to please their ideological masters and glean any benefits out of it. Do we see any humanities criticizing the communism and Marxism based on the flaws in these corrupt ideologies? No. We see them criticizing only the western system. I am not to say that western market based capitalist system is a panacia but it orders of magnitude better than the communism and Marxism based hell.
Because lord knows scientists have never worked with horrific regimes, right?
"Do we see any humanities criticizing the communism and Marxism based on the flaws in these corrupt ideologies?"
Umm...I see these all the time. Indeed, my first encounter with both Marx and the flaws of that system were from the humanities.
- "How the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariate' was ever supposed to just naturally fade away was left undiscussed, and clearly never occurred."
- "Marx's writing, while a well-reasoned critique of capitalism, failed to provide a workable alternate solution."
Both of these were from fairly leftist professors. One should note that, at this point, "Western Systems" are really all that's left, so yes, there's going to be more criticism of them. The Soviet Union collapsed. And China is now some sort of weird hybrid system - and if you're seriously going to argue that there's not academics in the humanities criticizing China, I really don't know what to say.