# Municipal Socialism

> Municipal Socialism is mapped as the common share: it interprets domination through class, ownership, labor, hierarchy, and collective provision.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:ideologies-left:municipal-socialism` |
| Family | Socialist & Left Traditions |
| Domain | Ideology |
| Kind | ideology |
| Archetypal function | The Common Share |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Municipal Socialism belongs to the **Socialist & Left Traditions** 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

Municipal Socialism interprets domination through class, ownership, labor, hierarchy, and collective provision, 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 Municipal Socialism, 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 Common Share.** Municipal Socialism is mapped as the common share: it interprets domination through class, ownership, labor, hierarchy, and collective provision.

## Gift

makes structural inequality and solidarity politically actionable; through Municipal Socialism, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

centralizes doctrine, flattens difference, or substitutes state command for emancipation; Municipal Socialism 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 Municipal Socialism 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 Common Share enters through Municipal Socialism. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Municipal Socialism becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**constraint.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Municipal Socialism; another player names a countermove. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **legitimizes — Eco-Socialism:** Eco-Socialism legitimizes Municipal Socialism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Third Way:** Municipal Socialism mobilizes Third Way by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **institutionalizes — Transitional Justice:** Transitional Justice institutionalizes Municipal Socialism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **mobilizes — Doctrine of Discovery:** Municipal Socialism mobilizes Doctrine of Discovery by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Municipal Socialism from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Municipal Socialism 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 Municipal Socialism: 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

- [Introduction to Political Science](https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science) — OpenStax, 2022. Comparative institutions, political behavior, and public policy foundations.
- [National Labor Relations Act](https://www.nlrb.gov/guidance/key-reference-materials/national-labor-relations-act) — National Labor Relations Board, 1935. U.S. collective-bargaining and protected concerted-activity framework.

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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`.
