Literacy is dropping due to erosion of the education system, as Imperialism eats itself alive. It isn't out of pride, necessarily, that's a post-hoc justification.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2024
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I could be wrong since I wasn't there...but I have a stinking suspicion that the majority of successful leftist movements in history didn't happen on account of a highly literate populace who all individually read karl marx and decided they needed to do a revolution at the same time.
This is not a well developed take from me, but I think that Amerikkka is doomed to fascism because of the abundance of petit bourgeois people, bourgeois centred attitudes, and settler history and mentality. I'm sure that illiteracy is a part of it, but IMHO it's not in the top 5. I'm worried that this might be ableist, but I'm not exactly sure.
More like classist, as illiteracy and poverty tend to go hand in hand
After their revolutions China and Cuba both made major reforms and have some of the highest literacy rates in the world.
I don't know what the literacy rates were for revolutionary Cuba, Russia, or China, but I'm willing to bet they weren't great. Something tells me Batista and the Czars were not running efficient public education systems.
Blaming people's personalities as though it is and will remain the prime mover is not very materialist.
1st third: Yep
2nd third: lmao what
3rd third: lmao what
Material conditions? Never heard of them.
Basically every successful Communist revolution immediately instates major literacy programs after the initial victory to empower the populace. It isn't a prerequisite.
Reading is necessary, but there also needs to be literary analysis and critical thinking.
Plenty of ignorant bazingas read "Please Don't Build The Torment Nexus" already, and then line up to help build the Torment Nexus.
The curtains in the torment nexus are blue.
Its not doomed to anything, its already there and always has been there.
Nothing always happens
you could just as easily say it's doomed to Bolshevik revolution 
It is doomed to fascism because it is a highly successful settler colonial project built on genocide. It's immense wealth and the relative comfort of it's citizens depend on exploiting and murdering people outside it's borders
Thanks the gods that literacy isn't a prerequisite to defeating fascism.
Did you see that r/trueanon post too