@Mlice are there any? Or have I just been lucky not to meet them.
@Kuniti_shino thank you ! Wasn't easy to find a way to draw it without πVIOLENCEπ and avoiding their symbols π₯
@Mlice Nazi non-furs should fuck off too. Off the face of the earth, the whole lot of them.
Amazing art, btw!
@Mlice uwww yea <3 another one that would be perfectly put OVER one of these AfD Nazi party sticker here in germany.
@Mlice I'm so jazzed that I was able to see you and buy from you at NFC last weekend!
@Mlice your friendly reminder that the three arrows are not actually friendly to all antifascists bc one of them is anticommunist
@bug anti-tankist ! Yup
It was a good way to don't draw the evil-symbol haha
@Mlice cool just wanted to make sure u were aware before muting
@bug like it's not about communism itself but precise movement into it though
I'm communist-friendly !
@Mlice the three arrows aren't, is the thing
@bug it's literally about tankism and authoritarian communism though... Authoritarian communism not communism
@bug oh just see that Americans do fucked this up again π«£ (I'm from France sorry!)
I also became concerned when I learned that history but the communists I know all said the meaning had changed over time and literally nobody using it now intended an anti communist message.
So I went back to using it.
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I have a hunch that contemporary feelings around the symbol by communists reflect the historical lenses we take towards the Comintern, and by extension ThΓ€lmann's leadership of the KPD. They also reflect how much emotional stake one has in said historical lenses.
Maybe this is where the "Third arrow meaning authoritarian communism" line came from, although I would consider this incorrect. The SPD were far from libertarian. If I were to draw a distinction, it depends on your viewpoint. Against communism, for opportunism? Against Stalinism, for your flavour of socialism? Against authority, for liberty? One is free to interpret the meaning precisely because the historic details of the third arrow are so contextual, so specific, so lost to time.
The core flaw here is that one is supposing the symbol's interpretive framework had stood still: "These arrows have specific meanings derived from the politics of the Iron Front."
I'm not surprised a section of pseudo-historian Marxist-Leninists tend to recoil at the renewal of the symbol. In the modern day, the third arrow would be pointed at them, if we assume that the symbol had not been re-appropriated after 80 years of history. This would be the case whether it's a social democrat or anarchist waving the flag. In the former case, against the working class. In the latter case, against the Party that coopts it.
@Mlice Yesss, Nazifurs, fuck off! And that includes "Furries for AfD" in Germany and shit like that!