# Revolution

> the moment an accepted structure of legitimacy stops reproducing itself

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:armed-struggle-revolution:revolution` |
| Family | Armed Struggle & Revolution |
| Domain | Conflict |
| Kind | strategy |
| Archetypal function | The Break |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Revolution belongs to the **Armed Struggle & Revolution** 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

A revolution transforms claims to rule, institutions, coercive loyalty, property, or social membership beyond ordinary succession.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Revolution, 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 Break.** the moment an accepted structure of legitimacy stops reproducing itself

## Gift

Structures once treated as permanent become changeable.

## Wound / Shadow

Violence, purification, and new domination can inherit the language of liberation.

## Conditions

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

## Strategic meaning

Use Revolution 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 Break enters through Revolution. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** Who stops obeying whom—and what can legitimately replace the old order?

## Game function

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

## Relationships

- **distributes costs to — Insurrection:** Revolution distributes costs to Insurrection by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **counteracts — Legitimacy:** Legitimacy counteracts Revolution by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **enables — Position:** Revolution enables Position by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

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

- [Revolution](https://www.britannica.com/topic/revolution-politics) — Encyclopaedia Britannica, ongoing. Comparative conceptual background; supplement with case-specific scholarship.
- [Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court](https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/Publications/Rome-Statute.pdf) — International Criminal Court, 1998. International criminal jurisdiction and definitions.

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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`.
