#permanent revolution

[nokingsnocrowns]

Nous Sommes Tous Des Palestiniens!

Revolution Permanente

Paris, France

[dailytrotsky]

Trotsky's theory of Permanent Revolution is one of the most misrepresented Marxist ideas. This video is a great place to start to understand what Permanent Revolution is actually about, and why it is relevant to communists still.

[jocrude]

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself, before it has stripped off all superstition in regard to the past."

- Karl Marx - The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

[trotskysvision]

JOIN THE SERVERRRRR

[lightgamble]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09

You couldn't call me?

[lemurious]

[one day in early thermidor]

this one's for saint-just.

the summer afternoons in paris are syrup-sweet with linden flowers. the month has earned another name, there are new greetings and new fashions. it's only been five years. enough for history. enough for myth. the news is tearing through the streets, when for a single breath, there's silence, and in the golden light there is sufficient time to die. the blooming trees are heavy with the bees. there will be honey in the store. someone will make provisions for another year.

he thinks of reaching up to pluck a leaf. wear green for hope, was it what they had shouted? he never could afford to deal in hope. it's hard to make cockades when hands are tied. (it's for the better, a thought comes uninvited, it's for the better that camille was rattled over the same uneven cobblestones before the buds had sprouted.)

instead he bends down for an instant to scoop up a flower thrown from the crowd. to brush his hand against another's. it's hard to see the bodies lying in the cart. a guard has kindly helped him place the flower in his buttonhole, and if he listened, he could hear the voices remarking on his silence. enough for history, enough for myth. (his words were not for them. there is a part of history he'll never share.)

his back is straight, his head is high, can you not see his wide-brimmed hat with a tricolor band? the dark blue of his uniform, the riding boots, mud-splattered from the journey… a trick of summer sun. it's better not to stare too long into the light. he doesn't stumble as he steps out of the cart into the square, into an afternoon in paris and through the centuries, and in the skies.

[collapsedsquid]

In an environment like Medicare, where the systems and controls have been standardized and industrialized, this allows the fraudster to use a technique that the management professor and Medicare historian Malcolm Sparrow christened “shotgun, then rifle.” You first create a panoply of fake transactions, claims, or orders, and see which ones get rejected. Then, having used the “shotgun” phase to gather information about the checking process, you move to the “rifle,” and fire off as many duplicates or slight variations as you can of the ones that worked. The government is often a victim of this sort of tactic, because it has some unusual characteristics as a victim (it is large, and has problems turning customers away: see Chapter 11). Many defense procurement frauds work in a similar way. But large private-sector entities are also vulnerable to shotgun/rifle approaches—something like this tactic is usually at the heart of organized insurance fraud, as well as some credit-card and mortgage frauds. Usually at the heart of a shotgun/rifle disaster, you will find a system that somebody has painstakingly engineered to optimize for the average unit cost. This is of course the right thing to do for most industrial processes, but you need to be careful that the thing you’re working on is an industrial process and not a decision-making process. Optimizing for the common case is not the same thing as trying to get the right answer, and a single medium-sized fraud can blow away all the costs saved by shaving a cent off a hundred thousand “normal” transactions.

DOGE might be able to find fraud in medicare, but they would probably be recapitulating or just taking credit for the already existing efforts that continue to search for medicare fraud and whose employees might have been already fired. You can see the problems with "efficiency" here, it was the search for efficiency in claims processing that gets us here. But you can also see the "one-and-done" approach is precisely what's not going to solve the problem, you need continual effort as scammers change their methods as well, Permanent Revolution you could call it.

[sugas6thtooth]

[uncannycookie]

OC-tober Day 18: Role Swap

Emri, Thief King of Nara-En: Emri wearing so much color is just wrong. Breaks my brain. Blacks greys and browns only for him! Dark blue if he feels really spicy.

But if he wants to be taken seriously in Gil's time and society, accessories and colorful clothing are kind of a must. This is as understated as he could go in his position.

How does he become Thief King? No idea, but definitely not on purpose. Also he's just plain bad at it. The city we're trying to save is doomed, sorry. Emri couldn't uncover a conspiracy if it gave him a lap dance.

Gilfaeth, Post-Apocalyptic Plague Doctor: I can live with the white hair, but I draw the line at Gil without his piercings. He will find some gold to put in his ears if it kills him.

Gil living through Emri's trauma though... that, uh, that's gonna go poorly. He does not have Emri's near infinite capacity for forgiveness. Emri has some pent-up anger, sure - but Gil is fucking furious. He will tear down the system that betrayed him with his teeth if he has to, and fuck anyone who gets in his way.

In his own story, he lived a hard but overall good life, made plenty of connections, had so many people he cared about, so many things to hold on to. He has none of that here, and it destroys him. 

[bookwyrminspiration]

the reason lee and annie weren’t talking to each other practically the whole book is because the moment they started working together again they immediately accomplished like half a dozen tasks everyone else has been fighting tooth and nail for for months to years, that’s so funny to me. munda said guys i need a conflict stop solving things you’re both in time out

[bubervitch]

i hated trotsky and then i realized id never read trotsky and then i read some and now im a trot. unfortunate

[science-fiction-is-real]

[birdietrait]

now i have an idea for a post apocalyptic gp.....i must be stopped

[devotion-between-the-wheat]

the current concept I've got for the cas.tlevania si is just a 21st century human that got tossed back to the 14th century, and is just trying to get back to their own time, and to not mess up the timeline via butterfly effect. and along the way, they get entangled with the tep.es, and the ensuing vampire apocalypse. like it feels silly in some aspects, but it does compell me.

[cats-deserve-citizenship]

i believe in the right to knock shit off a table

[notruvik]

crazy that they made metaphor trotskyist