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 parties which seek to gain mass support among the exploited lower classes who are often illiterate and uneducated.
Examples of this phenomenon include the Russian Revolution[1], the Cuban Revolution[2], the Chinese Revolution.[3]
During Thomas Sankara's 4 years of power in Burkina Faso, 350 schools were constructed and resulted in a literacy rate increase of 60%.[4]