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.

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.

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.

Its not doomed to anything, its already there and always has been there.

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