Gramsci Gap-Bridging Collective (LM-Dawn class)

Class card for LM-Dawn collectives whose central purpose is to consciously inhabit the Gramscian interregnum — the gap between the dying DM-Dusk world and the struggling LM-Dawn world — as a productive transition-substrate. The defining quality is BRIDGING DISCIPLINE: these collectives know they operate in the interregnum (Gramsci, Prison Notebooks 1929-35: "the old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters"), and their primary labor is holding the gap open long enough for LM-form coordination practices to consolidate, without being captured by either DM-Dusk lock-in (e.g., platform-dependence, venture-capital absorption) or LM-Dawn romanticism (e.g., disconnected-utopianism, prefigurative- community insularity). Theoretical anchors: Gramsci interregnum (Prison Notebooks, 1929-35); Erik Olin Wright "Real Utopias" (2010) — "interstitial and symbiotic transformation" as viable transition strategy; Bernard Stiegler "Pharmacology of the Anthropocene" (2018) — pharmakon framing of DM platform affordances (both poison and remedy); Geoff Mulgan "Another World is Possible" (2022) — social innovation ecosystems as transition- substrate; Kate Raworth Doughnut Economics (2017) — city-level interregnum bridging; Wave-0 LM substitute for MM Fiat Progress (Rao DM II); Wave-0 transition_pathway = de_alignment_re_alignment. Named instances [EXTRAP]: Stiegler's Plaine Commune Internation Institute (2010s; explicit DM→LM bridge institute; pharmakon practice); Trebor Scholz's Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC, 2014+; ~150 affiliated coops; platform substrate used for cooperative ends); Dark Mountain Project (2009+; Paul Kingsnorth; literary-cultural bridge for ecological-civilizational transition; Uncivilisation manifestos); Real Utopias Project (Erik Olin Wright, ~2010s; "real utopias" framework for transition: interstitial + symbiotic + ruptural strategies); US Solidarity Economy Network + Brazil Solidarity Economy Network (~20K member-orgs cumulative; cooperative + commons + mutual-aid weave); Doughnut Economics Action Lab (Kate Raworth, 2018+; Amsterdam + Brussels + ~60 city pilots; Doughnut as interregnum bridging tool); Transition Initiative (post-Rob Hopkins; Totnes 2006 → ~1500 communities by 2020; energy descent + transition culture practice); Hivos Knowledge Programme (~200 grantees on transition work; Global South bridge); P2P Foundation (Michel Bauwens; ~25K member network; commons transition framework). Structural features: (1) explicit interregnum awareness — the collective names the gap and organizes its practice around navigating it; (2) dual-capture resistance — both DM-capture and LM-utopianism are named failure modes; (3) platform substrate use without platform capture — uses DM affordances (internet, open-source, social platforms) as bridging infrastructure while preventing full absorption by DM logic; (4) real-utopia discipline — Wright's criterion: "real utopias" must be viable (non-suicidal under current conditions), achievable (path exists from here), and desirable (constitutes good society if achieved); (5) pace_layer spans governance + culture; governance primary because bridging requires political/institutional negotiation, not just prefigurative practice; (6) lineage_substrate=hybrid: both institutional (cooperative lineage, social movement archive) and technical_memory (Stiegler: the platform affordances and DM tools that bridge collectives re-purpose). Distinct from sibling LM class cards: proletarianization-reversal-class (inverts craft-stripping; inward- focused; this card is gap-facing, transition-bridging); argument-of- progress-collective-class (holds plural progress arguments; this card specifically inhabits the GAP as productive substrate); degrowth- municipalism-class (municipal governance form; this card is network- and-institute form, not municipally-anchored). The Gramsci-gap-bridging class is the most explicitly transition-conscious: it holds the interregnum as its operating condition, not as a failure state to exit. All quantitative values [EXTRAP]; framing [CANON] per Wave-0 LM mechanism enumeration #34 + Gramsci Prison Notebooks interregnum. confidence band 0.30-0.45 per embedded constraints (LM-Dawn; [EXTRAP] throughout). Interregnum_bridging subtype carried in this description.