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Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.
I can't help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.
Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright 
that literacy is what would allow the working class to take over running a society. The issue of illiteracy preventing revolution would therefore be mitigateable by a literate vanguard party that after the revolution set about mass literacy programs.
I'm not sure about that kids seem perfectly able to talk to each other in person
Lucero that's one hell of a run on sentence you've got there.
Just found it ironic given the thread topic
Hard disagree, if anything that makes conditions dire enough revolution becomes all but mandatory.
The Internet and the ability to vlog might be an X factor that Marx didn't account for. Not that I'm not talking out of my ass, but it is a method of relaying information that Marx didn't have
I would argue akin to Vietnam, the early leftist movements in the US didn't have the benefit of high literacy amongst the working class. As a result you have a lot of leftist folk music traditions where a song writer would take a popular song everyone probably knew, changed the lyrics, and then sang it and helped people learn it. The Preacher and the Slave, Dump the Bosses Off Your Back, or the pretty obvious 3fer of John Brown's Body, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, and Solidarity Forever.
Utah Phillips explains it pretty well in the opening of Dump the Bosses Off Your Back
Kinda reminds me of slavery but in reverse
Instead of enslaved people becoming increasingly educated and more demanding of freedom, free people become increasingly illiterate and closer to a slave-like status