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.
Two symbols: A cracked skull to remember the people who died in wars. A sword to fight oppression.
An espresso group head and an AI prompt.
Bluetooth headset and an uber eats food carrier
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.)
I like the Juche symbol
The GDR coat of arms or the WPK emblem are nice variations
Quills have been used in a bunch of variations. Cogwheels too
The GDR’s is exactly what I would expect out of German communism. “We have the two working classes: laborers and engineers”
I absolutely love the WPK emblem.
Always thought the GDR and WPK had awesome h&s variations!
The WPK emblem is perfection.
I like this one, especially. The DPRK one is great as well
Well, I already own one of those things…
time to save up for the vibrator !
The same, honestly. These jobs never went away, they were just shifted out of the imperial core to the periphery. It’s a symbol of two classes, the proletariat and the peasantry. While the peasantry has been mostly phased out, its symbol remains.
I don’t think the scythe really represents farming in the modern era though.
Neither does the hammer for the average industrial worker, but both are symbolic.
We should replace the sickle for a combine harvester and the hammer for a CNC lathe amirite
This is why a study of art is key for any revolutionary, we can’t have our symbols looking lame
It should just be a combine harvester. The machine itself is an impressive product of ingenuity, engineering, and labour, as well as symbolising agriculture. It is also a symbol of progress and prosperity.
Better than I thought it would turn out!
A computer mouse and crippling debt.
A spatula and a necktie.
Probably just an updated hammer and sickle, really.
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
