Made a jab online about an artist posting it, and getting pushback saying that since it’s creation, it has been adopted by some communist orgs.

From what I can find, it seems to have been used by a French socialist party for a few decades, but nothing beyond that that isn’t socdem parties.

So i guess yeah, anyone know of any full on commie groups that have ever adopted it?

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    5 months ago

    Bad because of its association with the SPD in Germany using it as an expression of “both sides” style anti-communism ( “we oppose all forms of authoritarianism, now off to snitch out Rosa and the KPD to the freikorps so they all get murdered!”), which helped usher in Nazism.

    IMO, if a symbol has any significant popularity among western leftists in particular, it probably sucks.