The hammer and sickle? Classic, original, awesome. But my fav is the Starry Plough personally

  • Muad'Dibber
    link
    fedilink
    222 years ago

    Just to add, there’s a ton of great looking versions of the hamsic:

  • KiG V2
    link
    fedilink
    17
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Saw someone with this pfp on here and it reminded me:

    It’s the symbol of the communists in the fictional world of the videogame “Disco Elysium.”

    The creator of the game is from Estonia and thus their perspective of communism comes from their local history. The game is a little doomer-pilled about communism but overall I’d say their political takes and implications, while plenty self-deprecating, pessimistic and snide, are usually very solid.

    Copy and pasted from the wiki:

    The symbol was created 40 years before the current century, eventually being adopted by Mazov and the communards. The wreath of antlers represented a society that could both exist alongside and rule over the natural world, while the five-pointed star, a social-democratic symbol, was turned upside down to symbolize the toppling of the old order. The colour white was chosen as it is the colour of peace, also seeming to complement the black used by anarchists.

    • MarxStuff
      link
      fedilink
      102 years ago

      I was just about to mention the star and antlers, dammit

      • KiG V2
        link
        fedilink
        32 years ago

        HAHAAAAA! IM EVIL

        No but you’re said pfp I was referencing, thank you for reminding me of such an awesome game 😉

  • Hammer & sickle of course, it’s timeless classic.

    But for actual modern use, best one out there is the juche symbol. Addition of brush is great and the symbol now represent entire working class.

  • @gun
    link
    142 years ago

    Oldy but a goldy

  • KiG V2
    link
    fedilink
    142 years ago

    That’s awesome!!

    I’ve been wanting to see more alternative communist symbols, maybe even drafting a few of my own, but the hammer and sickle will always be the most badass, the most inspiring, and the most emotional for me as I have a long time attachment to it from even long before my days as a communist. It also helps that it so powerfully and instantaneously strikes fear into the hearts of capitalists and fascists.

    I do think a modern iteration would be cool, but I don’t think a cell phone and a weed whacker crossed has quite the same effect.

    I know it’s a cliche used by every movement and ideology across all of life and even fiction but I always liked the idea of a phoenix–especially in America, where it’s hard to imagine things turning for the better unless they first get much worse.

    • ButtigiegMineralMapOP
      link
      fedilink
      5
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      That’s prob one of my fav HamSic bc Stalin’s contributions are special to my family, my grandma was an orphan in East Poland, in the 1930s(current-day Belarus) and Stalin’s decree allowed her to stay in Leningrad as a kid, enjoying free education, food, a place to stay with other orphans and other subsidized needs. Whenever Stalin is shit-talked in public, I know immediately that it’s someone who never knew Stalin’s actions and is following US propaganda, nobody that knows Stalin could hate him so much

  • Suburban_Witch
    link
    fedilink
    52 years ago

    CPUSA’s hamsic. It’s classic, but it’s got a unique flair to it. I like how half of the circle is a sickle, while the other is a gear.

    • ButtigiegMineralMapOP
      link
      fedilink
      72 years ago

      Any specialized HamSic is worth extra to me, it sorta embodies the Marxist spirit of changing circumstances to fit the material conditions of a region. Some African symbols have Machetes or large Scythes and the Us uses a large gear symbol, I like it

  • Breadbeard
    link
    fedilink
    42 years ago

    the kalash… because it is the symbol of the struggle itself

    • ButtigiegMineralMapOP
      link
      fedilink
      22 years ago

      Underrated answer lol, nobody can really try appropriating the калашников, the weapon of the defenders, according to its creator(lol maybe not always accurate considering its popularity among criminals but still)

      • Breadbeard
        link
        fedilink
        22 years ago

        well, revolution was never a legal business to begin with… not endorsing violence and not even a fan of guns, but yes. freedom doesn’t come for free