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It wasn't until 1996 that the Socialist Party of Albania (which succeeded the Party of Labour of Albania in 1991) formally renounced Marxism-Leninism, when in practice it obviously renounced Marxism-Leninism in deeds from its establishment. Revisionism couches itself in "Marxist" ideology, only to gradually discard it as time goes on. Removing the hammer and sickle is just an aesthetic move at this point, one indicating the continuous right-wing march of the PCF.
* h0m0revolutionary: "neo-liberalism can deliver healthy children, it can educate them, it can feed them, it can clothe them and leave them fully contented."
* rooster: "Supporting [anti-imperialism] is reactionary. How is any nation supposed to stand up [to] the might of the US anyway?"
* nizan: "Fuck your education is empowerment bullshit, education is alienation, nothing more. You indulge in a dying prestige for a role in a bureaucratic spectacle deserving of nothing beyond contempt."
* Alexios: "To the Board Administration: Ismail [...] needs to be eliminated from this forum."
A beer bottle and a tv remote would be a more accurate symbol for the modern proletariat.
Perhaps your personal symbol should be a keyboard and a trollface?
It's a symbol, it is not a picture. Probably was never accurate, at least concerning the hammer - how much hammerwork would it be necessary in a mid-19th century textile plant?
Accordingly, the PCF's dereliction of the symbol is also symbolic. And I don't think it needs too much intellectual effort to understand what does it symbolise... or to realise that it is symbolic of something that has been happening for a long, long time.
Ah, yes... the hammer and sickle are also a recast of an older theme, that of the cross. Not only in the geometrical shape, but also in depicting instruments of torture.
Luís Henrique
Don't left parties in Europe, genuine or otherwise, use red stars anyway?
"A new centrist project does not have to repeat these mistakes. Nobody in this topic is advocating a carbon copy of the Second International (which again was only partly centrist)." (Tjis, class-struggle anarchist)
"A centrist strategy is based on patience, and building a movement or party or party-movement through deploying various instruments, which I think should include: workplace organising, housing struggles [...] and social services [...] and a range of other activities such as sports and culture. These are recruitment and retention tools that allow for a platform for political education." (Tim Cornelis, left-communist)
