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?
It has a loathsome provenance.
SPD collaborators, who went to great lengths to suppress the KPD and its affiliated groups while the SPD were in government yet turning a blind eye to the fascist paramilitaries, developed the three arrows. You don’t need to be a semiotician to interpret their primary target:
You also don’t need to be a historian to recognize that they collaborated with an arch-monarchist to install Nazi party leaders at all the levers of power in the Weimar Republic in its final days and that this vindicates the argument that the SPD saw communists as their primary political opponent.
Unless you see that third arrow being pointed in the opposite direction as a way of reclaiming the symbol, I’d give anyone who touts the three arrows a wide berth; either they don’t know the history of the symbol they have adopted (which is itself a big yikes) or they do know its history and they have consciously adopted it because of that fact (which is a bigger yikes).
Lookin’ at you Dan Arrows on YouTube, who has a 6-figure Patreon income despite having not produced a single video for over a year now.