Actual existing socialist movements that became actual existing socialist states successfully taught people to read using the book capital.
None of the roles involved in operating the socialist state or tearing down the bourgeois state preclude literacy.
Experts in their fields need to understand history and theory in order to be able to figure out new forms of organization.
We are not storming the battlements. There are not ditches to be dug. All serious communist movements in the imperial core strive to understand the conditions of the moment and determine how they should respond to them. That requires history and theory.
Again, if you just feel like you’re gonna fly to pieces if you don’t do something, there are anarchist and electoralist groups that will put you to work.
It sucks to have a fire lit under your ass and have the people who did it say “now sit on your burning ass and read this long boring book and have a talk with us about it afterwards.” It’s not something you can make an effective end run around.