Disclaimer: bipolar rant.
tl;dr: I’m frustrated that no one is working on clever schemes like this where I could help. All the weaponized math is for capitalist crypto-bros, drug dealers and think tanks, what an unfair world…
Honestly, seeing the real economic and social implications of fields like game theory, cryptography etc. makes one wonder if it could be possible to put these to revolutionary use. I know about the Revolutionary Technical Committee and might get in contact with them, but I’m not sure if they’ll know of some concrete project that would help, something like a bunch of decentralized software, smart contracts, mathematical proofs… I can write all of these, but what for?
For example, this comment of mine proposes an economic scheme that would require all of the above to coordinate, secure and trust, to optimize functioning and minimize necessary involvement. But I’m sure there are other (better?) ways to use math and tech directly for revolution. Any revolutionary ideas where the questions arise of “why should I trust…?”, “how can we ensure…?”, “how to optimize…?” can theoretically benefit from them.
Even my local revolutionary organization mentioned a problem that could be solved using a certain crypto scheme, namely securely and anonymously swapping vehicles between owners, to be presented to the general population but actually meant to avoid identification while reducing transportation costs.
Mathematics and technology are among the most important instruments of the revolution, notably of the revolutionary war. Historically, the October Revolution depended heavily on engineers among the revolutionaries who succeeded in hijacking telecommunications and holding the Transsiberian railway. Famous Soviet mathematicians like Kolmogorov helped the Soviet Union during its darkest hour by using statistics to organise the aerial defence of Moscow. In general, revolutionary warfare must employ all kinds of mathematical and scientific schemes to ensure its ends are reached with as few casualties as possible.
But the greatest labour for the mathematician only starts after the revolution succeeds. Millions of choices that were previously decided through bourgeois class interest now require scientific reevaluation based on the merit of the subject. Who, if not socialist mathematicians, will lay out the democratic planned economy? Who if not them will rid industrial processes from the stains of their capitalist origin? Who if not them will research space, time, and energy in order to pour over the existential questions that lie at the very foundation of Marxist-Leninist philosophy?