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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.

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More like classist, as illiteracy and poverty tend to go hand in hand

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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.

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37 points

Blaming people’s personalities as though it is and will remain the prime mover is not very materialist.

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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.

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mfw the base shapes and maintains the superstructure and the superstructure maintains and shapes the base

Death to America

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

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Nothing always happens

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The curtains in the torment nexus are blue.

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