This is the way I see it:
Primary sector: Agriculture - Sickle - Manufactures edible goods
Secondary sector: Industry - Hammer - Manufactures non-edible goods
Tertiary sector: Service - Mop - Helps people through transporting goods, stocking goods, repairing goods, cleaning, healing organisms, providing entertainment, cashiering and catering.
Quarternary sector: Judiciary - Pen - Provides Law and Order through Government, Justice, Police, Education, Political media and Mental support (Psychiatry & Religion)
Quinary sector: Finance - Banknote - Gambles
Sextary sector: Automation - Cogwheel - Destroys jobsAs the service sector is large and sextary sector petite bourgeoisie than the service sector I suggest the following:
Mop and Pizza Box
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I changed the Syringe to mop in the Tertiary sector as suggested by mech,
although I have to say that nurse is very common job,
which is why I chose the syringe.
Same goes for delivery person, but I’m betting on it being automated away faster than nursehood.I crossed out cogwheel as a symbol for the proletariat as I realize that I consider a subsector of this (engineers) to be one part of the ruling class (the other being scholars) within socialism and thus not the proletariat.
I feel like the one tool that’s used by the most workers in the Tertiary sector is the mop.
Every office in the world needs to be cleaned. And it’s part of the job for everyone in retail or food service, too.You convinced me:
I changed Pizza box to Mop and put Syringe in second place.[edit]
On second though, perhaps I’ll replace syringe with pizza box.
It evens out the sexes, both mop and syringe are practiced most often by women
‘cleaning lady and nurse’, while transportation of goods is more often done by men as carrying goods can sometimes be physically demanding.
Protective gloves representing a lot of blue collars like industrial, mechanical, medical, and maintenance, cleaning.
Keyboard or headset (I considered outlook calendar or zoom symbols, but dont think a specific company should be immortalised here) for a lot of white collars.
Definitely just the hammer & sickle. It still very much applies.
Alternatively, though this is not strictly Communism but Socialism, I really like the common logo used for Democratic Socialism, the Fist and Rose!
I also really like the logo of the Democratic Socialists of America!
A couch and a cell phone.
Well, I already own one of those things…
time to save up for the vibrator !
19·10 hours agoThe GDR coat of arms or the WPK emblem are nice variations
Quills have been used in a bunch of variations. Cogwheels too
The WPK emblem is perfection.
I absolutely love the WPK emblem.
Always thought the GDR and WPK had awesome h&s variations!
An Excel spreadsheet.
Except not all comrades are white-collar workers.
A very large number of us, believe it or not, are blue collar.
(I’m one of them.)
The same, honestly. These jobs never went away, they were just shifted out of the imperial core to the periphery.
I don’t think the scythe really represents farming in the modern era though.
Bluetooth headset and an uber eats food carrier
a manual particle collector (broom) and a manual particle shifter (shovel).
As an artist I’d love to see suggestions in this thread. The specific recommendations might be different country to country or smaller districts. Something thats difficult for the US is that a lotta people are doing jobs related to tech and there’s not really a single unifying symbol for this. Hammer and sickle to represent farming and manufacturing is possible, and I believe adding a brush branches out to a wider movement.
But finding symbols to speak to the workers as a whole can be difficult with how diverse it all is. Theres so many hyper specialized machines and tools.
When making Icons before I’ve used my states iconography and Black panthers, and queer symbols like the pink triangle. This is extremely important and a good symbol will speak to the audiences you want and pull dedicated people into the movement.
It might be necessary to focus on smaller regions within the US and Unite those before creating broader movements. (OFC whichever is in the best interests of the end goal of revolution at that time.) I can only speak to the US however
For tech workers, how about a keyboard, mouse, or a circuit board? Getting them to look good and clear on a flag would be difficult though…
An espresso group head and an AI prompt.
Probably just an updated hammer and sickle, really.
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I think about this a lot. I genuinely think this is a really important question for the future. I’m not sure if we can reclaim the hammer and sickle in the eyes of the masses but the idea it represents of the two largest labor forces joining together will forever be important.
That is a very good point actually. Most western people look at the hammer and sickle and see evil. If we changed it to something else to make people feel more represented and avoid peoples gut reaction then it would really improve things.
I disagree. I don’t think the symbol is tainted, but the core idea behind it, because of the red scare propaganda. Once people realise what the new symbol stands for, they’ll dislike it just as much, if not more so because they feel ‘tricked’.
We have to reform the good name of communism instead, rather than throw it out wholesale.
