Gears of Communism

[Sand Castle]

I've noticed that some symbols associated with different Communist ideologies have gears in them. The CPUSA logo has a gear in it and I saw a picture of the A (anarcho) with a gear around half of it. What do the gears represent? I know the hammer and sickle represent a relationship among the peasants and artisans (I think), but what do the gears symbolize?

[LSD]

The gears represent the industrial workers.

And the hammer and sickle logo was meant to symbolize the peasants and workers of revolutionary Rusia.

[Sand Castle]

Originally posted by [email protected] 16, 2007 05:30 am
And the hammer and sickle logo was meant to symbolize the peasants and workers of revolutionary Rusia.
Isn't that what artisans are, workers?

[BreadBros]

An artisan implies a worker who is self-employed and works in a workshop making unique products. The hammer symbolizes industrial workers, that is workers who are generally employed in a workplace and who produce things industrially (that is to say, producing identical products en masse using machinery). Its a bit anachronistic as I dont think many factories these days actually require hammering of any sort, but it used to be common, especially in steel factories, in the past.

[Fawkes]

Yeah, the gear just represents the industrial workers. The grain and gear with an :AO: in the center represents class struggle anarchism.