If we live in a knowledge economy (Ford, 2021), then information literacy is a key to understanding the world and how we can shape it. Recently, there has been a renewed focus on information literacy (IL) as it pertains to misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda in both academics and popular media. However, most of the attention has been placed on outrageous claims and wild, often bigoted, conspiracy theories; very little attention has been paid to the more commonplace disinformation campaigns that support hegemony. This paper serves as both a brief recap of how we got here, but more so as a call to move beyond merely being critical, in the Frankfurt School sense, and taking a more revolutionary stand against the underlying cause of this disinformation: capitalism. What information is produced, how it is disseminated and promoted, how it is accessed, and how it is framed is determined by who owns and controls the methods of production and dissemination and within a capitalist system, such as the United States, the "who" are capitalists. Any attempts to understand information without acknowledging and compensating for that fact can never achieve its aim. Therefore, we need revolutionary information literacy to cut through the hegemonic veneer. Building on Freire's definition of literacy, revolutionary information literacy uses historical and dialectical materialism as the analytical lens to understand information and the context around it.