Purely based on aesthetics, what's your favorite Hammer and Sickle variant?

Why in the ever living fuck is strasserism and other nazbol stuff on here

- Yeah who made this list???
- Maki is anti-Zionist at least
i didnt know those existed so might be just to show literally all the variations? But yeah i did cringe at the "post-revisionist" comments at some point like come on bruh.

I just love DDR's #27 symbol to death. I call it the "communist nerd symbol." I also really like the Angola flag one as it is closer to the tools that would be used on the other side of the Atlantic in Brazil, rather than a sickle. We could easily appropriate it.

DDR one rules.

I really like the gear/sprocket variants. Also, replacing the sickle with wheat makes more sense - sickles are artisanal these days.

I prefer gear/sprocket tbh as they are simpler , which makes them good on flags . Though I dont like what the Communist Party of Canada has going for it , to much detail imho
- I like the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan - shows that wheat can be kept simple.
  The Communist Party of Canada looks more fitting as a badge or pin - def too busy for a flag

🇦🇴’s symbol on their flag is the coolest

Angola and Mozambique are probably my favorites. Can't think of better symbolism, for the struggle it must have taken them to drive the Portuguese out of their countries.

1dt place Korea, 2nd place Angola

seconded

this one

Where's that one from?
- party wise, none, it is an ideia that goes around on how the flag of future Democratic Republic of Brazil should be

It looks like the Disney 'D' though
i love the big sweeping sickle, goes hard af

You know it's gotta be Angola

This is just a design some guy online made up, but I like this Aussie variant.

Maintaining the heritage of the colonists??? 🤢🤢🤢
- there's a couple of flags inspired by aboriginal designs that i'm fond of too, but they usually lack the hammer and sickle or just slap the soviet design on an aboriginal flag

Mozambique

This will be a perfect album cover for my upcoming anti-Imperialist rap album: Guns and Hoes.

I think 35, 45, and 53 are pretty baller. The Afghanistan one is just so clean, the Syrian one is like the classic but easier to draw, and I think the India one having crops is a neat touch.

Totally agree, also the quill in the Syrian one makes it almost perfect for me. It's a classic with a twist.

I like how the nazbol symbol combines a symbol from Germany's past with new ideas. It would be even better if the eagle held the hammer in the left hand instead of a sword. From a purely aesthetic standpoint I like this combination of old and new.

Also, Mozambique having an AK in their emblem goes hard.

0/10, no Venezuelan Communist Rooster

here's workers party of turkey.

I like all the ones with gears, something like that would work as a "modernized" symbol.

Workers Party is Korea #33

I like that it includes a brush. It is meant to include not just laborers and farmers but also artists and writers and such. I think that pretty cool of them.

Afgan, kurdish and Canadian.

I've never liked the gears for some reason. I liked when Lincoln's profile was part of the iconography.
It could just use some Americana in it, whatever that might be.
- a "communist" party that includes a depiction of any USian president in their logo is almost certainly PatSoc
- What year is that image from?

45, hammer, sickle, quill.

96 and 114. I like the book and I like the quill.

Best: #5 Worst: #61 Honorable Mention: #74

Honestly I really like the minimalism of 21. The Bulgarian Communist Party , but I also like the symmetric ones like 27. East Germany , 33. Workers Party of Korea and 35. People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. I also like that 27. East Germany replaces the sickle with another tool , which I assume had more relevance in the society in East Germany at the time . While a lot of the examples given add other tools or add weapons , I think 27. East Germany is the only one to replace the sickle , with something with a very different shape , which I think is a good nod to progress as , usage of the sickle in farming has decreased a lot , I think .

The Communist Party of Canada is also nice , but to cluttered imho

Edit: 25. Hungary replaces the sickle with a strain of grain (idk how to call it in English), which also looks nice

5 or 66, good balance on both.

As far as the classic version I prefer 6 (Victory Banner) and 28 (oldschool CPC). But i am also partial to the WPK emblem (33) for its symmetry. And of course you have to appreciate the innovativeness of the DDR's version (27).

Always loved the Mozambique flag. It's interesting that the Kazakh version has a serrated sickle.

The 1936 - 1955 USSR one is my favorite

28, but 32 is also good

Definitely CPC

OR

25, 35, 27, 33, 1, 46, and 110.

Angola not part of Africa now? also GDR with Angola as a close second

#74, Communist Party of New Zealand is awesome, brings out the true glory and civility of a collectivized society.

Afro-Shiazi Party omg

5, 33, 45.

Lol at the 77, true spirit of napkin drawing.

I won't even comment the "ideological variants" sections

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The Communist Party of Vatican City one, which replaces the sickle with a bishop’s crook and the hammer with an ornate key. For some reason, it got left off.

the Hammer and sickle doesn't look great, but I would choose 108, 71, and 83. In that order

My favorite's probably the old CPC one.

Yes.

Although it's almost impossible to beat the good old hammer and sickle (beautiful, instantly recognizable iconography in excellent colors), I am quite partial to the Syrian Communist Party's emblem.

It's me guys, I'm the hammer and sickle variant

the Mozambique and Angolan variants are kinda badass, but i also love the 'standard' hammer and sickle with the thinner, more realistic sickle. actually, the other ones with hoes are pretty great, too.