# Marxism-Leninism

> Marxism-Leninism 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:marxism-leninism` |
| Family | Socialist & Left Traditions |
| Domain | Ideology |
| Kind | ideology |
| Archetypal function | The Common Share |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Marxism-Leninism 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

Marxism-Leninism 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 Marxism-Leninism, 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.** Marxism-Leninism 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 Marxism-Leninism, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

centralizes doctrine, flattens difference, or substitutes state command for emancipation; Marxism-Leninism 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 Marxism-Leninism 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 Marxism-Leninism. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Marxism-Leninism becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

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

## Relationships

- **enables — Marxism:** Marxism enables Marxism-Leninism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **constrains — Anarchism:** Marxism-Leninism constrains Anarchism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **translates into — Congress:** Marxism-Leninism translates into Congress by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **enables — Political Education Program:** Political Education Program enables Marxism-Leninism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

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