Who/what is your avatar, and why?

[Chicxulub]

My avatar is Feliks Dzherzhinsky, first leader of VCheKa, and it's because he was a great leader of the revolution.

what's yours?

[Arlekino]

I choose peasant communist woman. I do like your avatar.:)

[Jazzratt]

I think you posted this in the wrong forum. I'll move it for you.

My avatar is the red and black flag associated with anarcho-syndicalism (and -communism) with an additional grey section representing the ideas of technocracy. It also has some words over the top which sum up my attitude quite nicely.

[ʇsıɥɔɹɐuɐ ıɯɐbıɹo]

My avatar is the joker merely because I'm a super sadist.

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[Comrade J]

Mine is a pic I took of a sculpture I really liked in Cuba. Nobody ever realises what it is so I'm grateful for the opportunity to explain. ;)

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/comrade-j/PICT0658.jpg

[Pirate Utopian]

Buffalo Bill at age 19. It's the albumcover for Tyler, the Creator's Goblin.

[Ele'ill]

Mine is an actual photograph of me with the red and black in the background being the colors of the anarcho-syndicalist flag.

[Vendetta]

Riley Freeman, cuz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-HhRH_gvPc

It's Riley Freeman.:laugh:

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I have my own breasts as mine.

[HEAD ICE]

My old avatar was Richard Lewontin, a geneticist who goes ham on evolutionary psychologists and sociobiology in general.

Now it is a record player. Mainly because it looks cool.

[gorillafuck]

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[The Man]

Mine is a pic I took of a sculpture I really liked in Cuba. Nobody ever realises what it is so I'm grateful for the opportunity to explain. ;)

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/comrade-j/PICT0658.jpg

I always never knew what that was.

Mine is Lenin with Kanye Glasses.

[Kuppo Shakur]

My avatar is a live webcam feed of me while I read all y'all's ridiculous posts.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Jules Bonnot, fashionable French gentleman and career criminal.

[Sentinel]

I chose my avatar, the red flag, last fall when i joined the swedish section of the Committee for a Workers' International and definitely broke with my former anarchist ideology.

I'm considering switching it to an awesome picture of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky made by a comrade of mine, but can't get the damn colours right in it..

[Os Cangaceiros]

That statue is pretty cool, comrade J. The whole theme of mankind being intertwined with industry (which I guess it the theme...?) is interesting.

[DDR]

Mine is:


The Fifth Regiment was established by the Communist Party on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Based on the ideas of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War, important leaders included Juan Modesto and Enrique Lister. It fought primarily in the battles in and around Madrid throughout the second-half of 1936. The Fifth Regiment eventually had a membership of 15,000 men but was dissolved on 21st January 1937.

Acero (steel) is because the column was made of the toughtest and most badass militiamen. They were mostly used as heavy support and shock troops.

[Red Commissar]

I cropped mine from this Soviet poster:


http://www.krasnoyeznamya.ru/gallery/rm_42_2604.jpg
Basically, the 10th anniversary of the "October Revolution"


Because it looked interesting.

[Os Cangaceiros]

The Fifth Regiment was established by the Communist Party on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Based on the ideas of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War, important leaders included Juan Modesto and Enrique Lister. It fought primarily in the battles in and around Madrid throughout the second-half of 1936. The Fifth Regiment eventually had a membership of 15,000 men but was dissolved on 21st January 1937.

Lister was kind of a scumbag, from what I remember reading about the conflict.

[Princess Luna]

mine represents God

[Robespierre Richard]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_al-Sistani

[Magón]

Andres Nin, a badass revolutionary from the Spanish Civil War, and who later got assassinated by the NKVD.

[9]

black circle, by kazimir malevich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimir_Malevich):

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/malevich/sup/malevich.black-circle.jpginverted.

[Agent Ducky]

Mine is a picture I drew of me wearing my commie hat. ^o^

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

max fischer from rushmore, coz he's a winner like me.

[Q]

I chose my avatar, the red flag, last fall when i joined the swedish section of the Committee for a Workers' International and definitely broke with my former anarchist ideology.

I'm considering switching it to an awesome picture of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky made by a comrade of mine, but can't get the damn colours right in it..

What, I already did most of the work over a week ago!

[#FF0000]

mine is red

[Lacrimi de Chiciură]

Dr. Zira, the anthropologist chimpanzee from the Planet of the Apes (1968)

BeCaUsE ApEs aRe fLiPpInG sWeEt

[ʇsıɥɔɹɐuɐ ıɯɐbıɹo]

Riley Freeman, cuz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-HhRH_gvPc

It's Riley Freeman.:laugh:

Riley is awesome.


I have my own breasts as mine.

Best avatar ever. :lol:


I always never knew what that was.

Mine is Lenin with Kanye Glasses.

"That's Ludicrous!" "No it's Lenin wearing Kayne glasses, not Ludacris!"


mine represents God

It's funny cause there's nothing there.


Mine is a picture I drew of me wearing my commie hat. ^o^

Hahaha

[GallowsBird]

Mine is a picture of Stalin from The Australian Women's Weekly (!?!) which I found amusing and the pipe he has is exactly like mine, so I thought I'd use it. :)

http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/communism/com034.jpg

[Manic Impressive]

Mine is a cartoon of some bloke wearing a Keffiyeh I got it from this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh) wiki page when I was trying to work out if I would look like a hipster if I got one.

The one before that was made by Thug Lessons and I used that because Mari3l threatened anyone who used it with a ban and I don't like threats.

[Omsk]

Whats Stalin doing in a womens weekly!? Haha

Mine is Erich Honecker,leader of the GDR who helped his country grown into a stable and prosperous state.

[GallowsBird]

Whats Stalin doing in a womens weekly!? Haha

I have no idea... slightly surreal anyway. :D

It seems that it may have been a show of support for the USSR in the Second World War. Or maybe they were fans of his great choice of pipes!:D

[Comrade J]

That statue is pretty cool, comrade J. The whole theme of mankind being intertwined with industry (which I guess it the theme...?) is interesting.

Yeah that's how I interpreted the statue too, showing how industry is the lifeblood of mankind. Absolutely awesome sculpture, I wish I had gone in to look at the rest of the art gallery but I was in a rush somewhere at the time.

[black magick hustla]

a haiku from a circus performer

[Zanthorus]

It's a star smiling and winking. Fairly self-explanatory really.

[Comrade J]

It's a star smiling and winking. Fairly self-explanatory really.

I always thought it was some kind of deformed Pikachu.

[Red Future]

Mine is self explanatory really ..Victory over Fascism

[DDR]

Lister was kind of a scumbag, from what I remember reading about the conflict.

¿What? He was one of the best commanders of the republican army, and a huge communist. After the Spanish Civil War he exiled himself to the Soviet Union, there he become commander of the red army, of Yugoslavia and Poland (at the same time).

[The pizza crazed Anarchist]

My avatar is of Dave Foley from the sketch "King of Empty Promises" on the show Kids in the Hall. I like the show and I like his hair in that sketch. Also I think it goes well with my user tile.

[Iraultzaile Ezkerreko]

Mine is Woody Guthrie cus he was a badass...when he wasn't the State Departments ***** during WWII.

[Anarchrusty]

My avatar represents a woman dumping a symbol of oppression and hardship in the trash.

[Il Medico]

Mine is a picture of Marcel, a charter from the movie Belle de Jour.

[Johnny Kerosene]

It's a star smiling and winking. Fairly self-explanatory really.

It looks kind of like Staffy. From Densetsu no Staffy or whatever. I've never played it or anything but I've heard of it.

Mine is Nancy Spungen, because I'm infatuated with her for no apparent reason.

[Lyev]

A part of one of the posters from Battleship Potemkin because I like the movie.

[L.A.P.]

Finn from Adventure Time.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Best avatar ever. :lol:



I wore just a red fishnet top for a shirt today so my hammer and sickle could get some fresh air. I ended up being a distraction for a passing bus's driver.

[Agent Ducky]

Finn from Adventure Time.

I do say, your avatar is MATHEMATICAL.

[Chimurenga.]

The infamous Guru and DJ Premier, otherwise known as Gangstarr.

My profile picture is a strapping young, handsome Kim Il Sung.

[Pirate Utopian]

Kim Il Sung looked like Bruno Mars.

[graymouser]

Mine is "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge." I love Soviet propaganda posters.

http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/706.html

If it worked better I'd probably have Trotsky as St. George slaying the dragon of counter-revolution. That image is ten kinds of awesome.

[Triple A]

mine represents God
win

[El Rojo]

a famous picture of lenin making a speach

its barely readable, but the writing says "we r in r bases, revoltionising ur proletariat"

[L.A.P.]

I do say, your avatar is MATHEMATICAL.

My avatar seems to be a big hit.

[Robespierre Richard]

These guys

http://scs.viceland.com/img/dos_donts/1775/main.jpg
Finally, someone even approaching futuristic enough to pull off those damn Kanye glasses. These guys look like they just carried out the most daring nuclear bank heist in Neo-Siberian history.

[Agent Ducky]

a famous picture of lenin making a speach

its barely readable, but the writing says "we r in r bases, revoltionising ur proletariat"

I saw that and Lol'd and I can't seem to find a bigger version of it. :(

[Quail]

Mine is an anarchist flag with a quail on top. A friend called me Quail once, and it kind of stuck for some reason. I thought it would make an okay online name.

[Knight of Cydonia]

Voltairine de Cleyre is mine..

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Hank Hill: Assistant Manager, Strickland Propane. He sells propane and propane accessories.
True revolutionary.

[Rusty Shackleford]

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[Aurora]

Mine is "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge." I love Soviet propaganda posters.

http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/706.html

If it worked better I'd probably have Trotsky as St. George slaying the dragon of counter-revolution. That image is ten kinds of awesome.

I didn't know that was the caption, i have that poster and some others in my room and the translation given is "Reds wedge is the whites death!'

My avatar is Trotsky's grave in Mexico
http://isabelarcher.typepad.com/isabel_archer/images/trotsky_grave.jpg

[9]

I didn't know that was the caption, i have that poster and some others in my room and the translation given is "Reds wedge is the whites death!'
idk about the caption, but "beat the whites with the red wedge" is the name of the piece.

[9]

Also, I jacked graymouser's artist:


http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/%7Eluc/el-lissitzky.jpg
(bottom left)

to be fair, I had this as an avatar awhile back but got bored of it. its a hammer and sickle; I thought it was obvious, but somebody sent me a PM asking what it was, so maybe not lol.

[FreeFocus]

My avatar is my favorite martial artist, Georges St. Pierre. His work ethic is inspirational to me and his efforts and attitude embody the ways of a martial artist. Not that his fights are particularly exciting nowadays, but he trains harder than anyone else, which I appreciate.

EDIT: LOL, this was my old one. Forgot I changed it. Currently its Subcomandante Marcos. I like the Zapatistas and this is just a bad ass picture.

[Dr Mindbender]

The grey field represents technocracy, the red cog represents socialist progress.

[Tower of Bebel]

A poster that was made in support of the Egyptian revolt in January.

http://nycal.mayfirst.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/event-display/events/We%20Stand%20Together.jpg

[Zanthorus]

The avatar I just changed to is one of these wonderful creatures:

http://thecontaminated.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tardigrade-water-bear.jpg

It's called a Tardigrade or 'Water Bear'. They're animals that can survive incredibly extreme environments. So far they've been shown to be able to survive up to at least ten days in the vaccum of space, and they can go for ten years without water. My dad brought them up in conversation today and I thought they were really neat.

[Property Is Robbery]

The avatar I just changed to is one of these wonderful creatures:



It's called a Tardigrade or 'Water Bear'. They're animals that can survive incredibly extreme environments. So far they've been shown to be able to survive up to at least ten days in the vaccum of space, and they can go for ten years without water. My dad brought them up in conversation today and I thought they were really neat.
I've always thought they were really cool too.


Mine is the late and great Michael "Eyedea" Larsen. He is one of my favorite rappers and on top of that he is a big inspiration. The avatar is a screen shot from the "Smile" video because the quote in my sig keeps me going when I'm down.

you guys gotta listen to this.
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[A Revolutionary Tool]

My avatar is of Che wearing a shirt with Bart Simpson on it. Found it while browsing pictures one time and thought it was pretty funny, a great piece of satire in my opinion.

[Cody_2ZZ]

My avatar is French novelist, essayist, playwright, and intellectual Albert Camus. Why? He's one of the most talented writers I've ever read, and with an excellent philosophical mind as well.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Camus is excellent. ive only read "The Stranger" but that was quite a powerful book.

[CleverTitle]

Mine is lightning.

Nothing profound, just lightning.