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]
The center of global imperialism and capitalism, the United States is currently facing a crisis of illiteracy,[5] scoring much lower in international studies among its economic peers, and even lower than poorer counterparts such as Cuba.[6][7]
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References
- ↑ "Education, literacy, and the Russian Revolution".
- ↑ "The Cuban Literacy Campaign".
- ↑ "‘The Single Greatest Educational Effort in Human History’".
- ↑ "Burkina Faso Remembers Death of Socialist President Sankara".
- ↑ "Crisis Point: The State of Literacy in America".
- ↑ "How Cuba became more literate than the United States".
- ↑ Bob Fitrakis (2022-04-14). "How Cuba became more literate than the United States" Workers Today.