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'''Literacy campaigns''' have been key in securing victories for communist and revolutionary movements throughout history, given that these revolutions are often carried out by [[Vanguard party|vanguard parties]] which seek to gain mass support among the exploited lower classes who are often illiterate and uneducated.  
'''Literacy campaigns''' have been key in securing victories for communist and revolutionary movements throughout history, given that these revolutions are often carried out by [[Vanguard party|vanguard parties]] which seek to gain mass support among the exploited lower classes who are often illiterate and uneducated.  
[[File:Knowledge will break the chains of slavery - Soviet Poster.webp|alt=Soviet poster that says "Knowledge will break the chains of slavery" (Знание разорвет цепи рабства) with books weighing down on chains|thumb|402x402px|Soviet poster that says "Knowledge will break the chains of slavery" (Знание разорвет цепи рабства)]]
[[File:Knowledge will break the chains of slavery - Soviet Poster.webp|alt=Soviet poster that says "Knowledge will break the chains of slavery" (Знание разорвет цепи рабства) with books weighing down on chains|thumb|402x402px|Soviet poster that says "Knowledge will break the chains of slavery" (Знание разорвет цепи рабства)]]
Examples of this phenomenon include the [[Russian revolution|Russian Revolution]]<ref>{{News citation|title=Education, literacy, and the Russian Revolution|url=https://isreview.org/issue/82/education-literacy-and-russian-revolution/index.html}}</ref>, the [[Cuban Revolution]]<ref>{{News citation|title=The Cuban Literacy Campaign|url=https://sites.miamioh.edu/hst-journeys/2018/05/the-cuban-literacy-campaign/}}</ref>, the Chinese Revolution.<ref>{{News citation|title=‘The Single Greatest Educational Effort in Human History’|url=https://www.languagemagazine.com/the-single-greatest-educational-effort-in-human-history/}}</ref>  
Examples of this phenomenon include the Russian Revolution<ref>{{News citation|title=Education, literacy, and the Russian Revolution|url=https://isreview.org/issue/82/education-literacy-and-russian-revolution/index.html}}</ref>, the Cuban Revolution<ref>{{News citation|title=The Cuban Literacy Campaign|url=https://sites.miamioh.edu/hst-journeys/2018/05/the-cuban-literacy-campaign/}}</ref>, the Chinese Revolution<ref>{{News citation|title=‘The Single Greatest Educational Effort in Human History’|url=https://www.languagemagazine.com/the-single-greatest-educational-effort-in-human-history/}}</ref> among others.  
 
During [[Thomas Sankara]]'s 4 years of power in Burkina Faso, 350 schools were constructed and resulted in a literacy rate increase of 60%.<ref>{{News citation|title=Burkina Faso Remembers Death of Socialist President Sankara|url=https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Burkina-Faso-Remembers-Death-of-Socialist-President-Sankara-20211015-0002.html}}</ref>
 
The center of global [[imperialism]] and [[capitalism]], the [[United States of America|United States]] is currently facing a crisis of illiteracy,<ref>{{News citation|title=Crisis Point: The State of Literacy in America|url=https://resilienteducator.com/news/illiteracy-in-america/}}</ref> scoring much lower in international studies among its economic peers, and even lower than poorer counterparts such as Cuba.<ref>{{News citation|title=How Cuba became more literate than the United States|url=https://columbusfreepress.com/article/how-cuba-became-more-literate-united-states}}</ref><ref>{{News citation|author=Bob Fitrakis|newspaper=[[Workers Today]]|title=How Cuba became more literate than the United States|date=2022-04-14|url=https://workers.today/how-cuba-became-more-literate-than-the-united-states/}}</ref>


== See also ==
== See also ==


* [[Each One Teach One|Each one teach one]]
* [[Each One Teach One|Each one teach one]]
*[[Consciousness]] 


== References ==
== References ==
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