# Base Building

> Base Building is mapped as the many: it converts dispersed preference into coordinated public capacity.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:collective-action:base-building` |
| Family | Collective Action |
| Domain | Movements |
| Kind | mechanism |
| Archetypal function | The Many |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Base Building belongs to the **Collective Action** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Base Building converts dispersed preference into coordinated public capacity, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Base Building, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Many.** Base Building is mapped as the many: it converts dispersed preference into coordinated public capacity.

## Gift

makes private grievance a shared political fact; through Base Building, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

excludes quieter constituencies or burns energy without durable structure; Base Building can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Base Building to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Many enters through Base Building. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Base Building becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**resource.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Base Building; another player names a countermove. Initiative 3.

## Relationships

- **translates into — Distributed Organizing:** Distributed Organizing translates into Base Building by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **enables — Relational Organizing:** Base Building enables Relational Organizing by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **amplifies — COINTELPRO:** Base Building amplifies COINTELPRO by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **constrains — Democratic Socialism:** Democratic Socialism constrains Base Building by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Base Building from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Base Building is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Base Building: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Why Civil Resistance Works](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820) — Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, 2011. Comparative study of violent and nonviolent campaigns, with scope and coding limits.
- [198 Methods of Nonviolent Action](https://www.aeinstein.org/nonviolentaction/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/) — Albert Einstein Institution, 1973. Tactic taxonomy; inclusion does not imply effectiveness or ethical endorsement in every context.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
