I was reading this post and thought it would be an interesting idea to make a design for. So I made a scratch design of the logo, which I have attached.
What do you guys think?
I was reading this post and thought it would be an interesting idea to make a design for. So I made a scratch design of the logo, which I have attached.
What do you guys think?
It's kinda neat, but it misses the point of the hammer and sickle. By the time that imagery was adopted, the hammer and sickle were already kinda outdated. There was industrial means of production and industrial farm equipment (though they weren't necessary super widely spread yet). The meaning of the hammer and sickle isn't literally the hammer and sickle, but the representative primitive tools of the proletariat.
The hammer forges the sickle and the sickle feeds the labor that creates it with a hammer.
It's a really cool design though
The thing is, even though they were outdated tools, they were representative of an industrial society. We aren't an industrial society anymore. We're an information age society. People are working in job sectors whose adjacent jobs didn't even exist when the hammer and sickle was created. In addition, especially in the imperial core states, there aren't really a whole lot of industrial workers anymore.
There is functionally, three primary outputs in Imperial Core states (whose socialists this symbol was made for):
Agriculture, usually on the backs of immigrants.
Service, on the back of service workers.
And the communications industry, on the back of IT people, which the entire world's economy and industry no longer works without.
And the symbols of those professions are, with the exception of the sickle for agriculture, not the same as the socialists that came before it. So I decided the best thing to do was to pick new ones, for the workers of the society we denizens of the imperial core now find ourselves in.
The sickle, of course, remains the symbol of agriculture.
The gear is the symbol of service workers, whose job is to keep the cogs of our world spinning.
And the microprocessor, whose existence is responsible for the IT field.
These three fields run on each other. IT runs on service, which runs on IT, and both run on agriculture, which in turn runs on the other two.
We're still an industrial society, just an imperialist one. The industry that creates commodity and drives the social production is just now mostly done in colonized territory.
The only way to really symbolize the imperial proletariat is through internationalism and anti-imperialism. The work we do is unproductive for the most part, and our goals should be the abolition of our forms of unproductive labor.
I’m partial to driving wheel as symbol instead of sickle tbh, but it’s difficult to add