Carroll, My original point was that I would prefer elitism to a leveling revolution where the intelligentsia are killed off. I did not say that all revolutionary regimes do this, though I should have written "revolutions that..." instead of "revolutions which..." But I will take you up on your point about the relationship of revolutionary regimes and high literacy rates. Do you regard a literacy campaign as "successful" in countries where there is no free press? Please list for me the revolutionary regimes of the 20th c. where both a high degree of literacy AND a free press have obtained. Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:51 AM Subject: Re: "Mass ought to be in Latin . . . Greek, or Chinese" > Tim Romano wrote: > > > or > > revolutions which kill off anyone who can read. > > Come. Come. Without exception, *all* the successful literacy > cammpaigns of the 20th century have been the activity of revolutionary > regimes. Vietnam, Cuba, USSR, China, Nicaragua. Back in the '50s and > '60s "North" Vietnam devoted considerable sources to providing > alphabets for languages in Vietnam which had none so that literacy > campaigns could be launched among those people. Cuba has the > highest literacy rate in Latin America. > > Carrol > >