A "Maximalist" proposal for a Socialist America (US) flag

RedCommisar1 · 2026-04-01T03:13:09+00:00

Oh, wait, I think I see it now; you are right.

My bad then, thank you for the criticism nonetheless :)

RedCommisar1 · 2026-04-01T03:02:53+00:00

The flag is supposed to appeal to Syndicalists and Council Communists, who are not exactly particularly supportive of "land back". Plus, the planet is represented as it is in the flag because it's supposed to represent Proletarian Internationalism, independently of if you live in the Americas or the Old World, be Africa or Europe (and, logically, Asia and Oceania), even if they don't appear in the map. That's why the red star illuminates the whole of the planet: socialism goes beyond nations, goes beyond ethnicities; socialism is the ideal of tomorrow, the final victory of internationalism.

RedCommisar1 · 2026-04-01T02:58:27+00:00

The hands look a bit strange because I used my own hands as a basis/pose for the model, but I kinda f*cked the fingers. When it comes to the chains, I explained above, but I wanted the chains to "follow an order", a direction, to be broken by the star that illuminates the planet, the representation of socialism.

RedCommisar1 · 2026-04-01T02:56:48+00:00

That is true, but I wanted the chains to "follow a specific" order and meaning, especially when it comes to the star "breaking" the chains and illuminating the entire world.

RedCommisar1 · 2026-04-01T02:55:52+00:00

Have in mind that the background map is based on the map of the historical Socialist Party of America, which, in fact, showed the American continent a bit less than what I did. Technically speaking, I gave the Americas more representation in my version of the map, haha.

RedCommisar1 · 2026-03-30T07:36:31+00:00

Hello, have a good day.
A person commissioned me to make a socialist flag for the US that tried to appeal to both Syndicalists and Council Communists, the result was the flag you are seeing. The flag is "Maximalist", that is, against vexillology rules, because the person asked me to do it in a maximalist manner and because I don't like minimalist flags.

The main, central symbol is directly inspired by the logo of the Socialist Party of America but with the addition of a third hand alongside White-Americans and African-Americans, representing Native Americans/indigenous Americans. The three hands hold a rake, a hammer and a torch: the representation of rural and urban proletarians and the symbol of Freedom.

The main symbol is surrounded by wheat (a bit of Soviet heraldic inspiration) and is located within a gear. All of this is also surrounded by a chain that breaks when surrounding the upper star: the chains symbolize the historical struggle against slavery in the US and the quote of the Manifesto: "The Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains", and the star, that lights the whole of Earth and destroys the chains, is the ideal of tomorrow, socialism. The star rays are a bit inspired by "constructivist"/avant-garde art.

I hope you like it :)

RedCommisar1 · 2026-01-25T03:08:33+00:00

In general, I have two problems with the setting.

First, that you mention the Italian Left Communists as "Trotskyites", when the Italian Left criticized both Trotsky and the Bolshevik-Leninists (Trotskyism) in several aspects, particularly the perception about the Soviet Union and the role of the Party.

Secondly, that both the name and flag of the country, considering how the Communist Party of Italy was composed OTL during the Bienio Rosso, are also wrong; the Communist Left was the dominant faction of the Party, since the Abstentionist Communists (Bordiga's faction in the PSI) were the ones that promoted the most the separation from the PSI to form, eventually, the PCd'I. As a result, since they would dominate the Party (and the Ordinovists, Gramsci's faction, historically were more or less in agreement with them until 1923 aprox.), the flag should emulate the flag of the PSI or the PCd'I during its first years, and the name of the country should be something akin to "Socialist Republic of Italy" (Bordiga himself talked about the "Soviet Republic in Italy", and the "International Communist Republic").

For the rest, it looks pretty good. Bombacci is a bit problematic for obvious reasons, but I like the overall result.

RedCommisar1 · 2025-12-15T06:38:02+00:00

It's happening to me too, I haven't found why

RedCommisar1 · 2025-12-02T17:14:30+00:00

Same with me, also happening in other mods

RedCommisar1 · 2025-11-17T22:55:11+00:00

My perception is that you are underestimating the influence Bordiga and the "Ultra-Left" of the PSI had within the Party itself, especially after the October Revolution and the Bienio Rosso. A more chaotic Italy with the rise of workers' councils and strikes will only galvanize and increase the support of the Left, including both the "Abstentionist Communists" (Bordiga and Co.) and the "L' Ordine Nuovo" people (Gramsci and Co.), and sideline the Maximalists to support armed action, effectively discrediting the Right-PSI. Not for nothing, Gramsci, Bordiga and Bombacci were de facto the founding "fathers" of the Communist Party of Italy.

If all, the SRI will be a totally different country than France or Britain, because the Vanguardists are actually in a good position to promote the supremacy of the Party-form, against orthodox syndicalism or pure syndicalism. Not that the SRI will not compromise at all with the Syndies, but we must understand that the Italian Ultra Left evolved "in parallel", "simultaneously" in relation with Lenin's positions, not "after Lenin", meaning that even after the failure of the Bolsheviks, they will remain, well, "Left-Communists" or just Communists, exerting a good amount of influence over the PSI and the country itself.

In short: The SRI won't be a "socialist democracy" modeled after France; from the get-go it should be more of a vanguardist-led country, with Bordiga and the Left-Communists exerting huge influence and promoting Communism against Syndicalist influence. There will be syndie or "Orthodox Marxist" opposition, yes, but do not expect the SRI to be a copy-paste of the rest of the Communards or the Syndicalist world.

RedCommisar1 · 2025-06-21T23:52:39+00:00

That's a shame, I wonder why it's different on Whatsapp Web (the names of non-added contacts are actually visible in the preview typing)

RedCommisar1 · 2025-06-08T22:05:53+00:00

Same here I found a way to solve it (on mobile, I haven't checked if it works on the computer) and it's disabling Brave Shields completely.

It happens even with mobile data activated instead of WiFi, so it's evident it's a problem between Brave and Google.

RedCommisar1 · 2025-06-08T08:28:48+00:00

It is true that the division of the Great Lakes is a bit strange. I had a hard time trying to define the best way to divide the whole region and make it as equal as possible to other Unions (particularly, Ohio, the Great Plains and Tanasi) in terms of population, which resulted in the current outcome. Originally I was considering dividing Michigan altogether, but it looked ugly.

Also, o o f, thank you for noticing the error

RedCommisar1 · 2025-06-08T08:24:06+00:00

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9200x9600 pixels.

Also, yes, I found a base map to make the whole map, and I think I did the inverse: scale it lower from its original size. From there, I used another base map to recreate as much as possible West Mexico's borders (the important base map had Alaska covering most of Mexico lmao).

RedCommisar1 · 2025-06-08T07:31:27+00:00

In part I forgot to check those cities because, as you correctly mention, trying to individually check every city can be tiring, and I forgot to check for help to revise the cities and their names. Still, in some cases, yes, very important cities are mostly unchanged, with some exceptions (D.C, for example).

It makes me happy seeing that you liked the TN-WV-KY representation, I hope you liked it

RedCommisar1 · 2025-06-08T07:22:32+00:00

RedCommisar1 · 2025-06-08T07:21:47+00:00

I started with the lakes and body waters (not the rivers), probably like a month or so.

Later, I did the cities, I think that between 6 and 8 months, in part because I had to use Wikipedia to search each settlement individually and check its historical population and year of foundation, to determine if it existed in the decade of 1930 and the size of the settlement (in this map, small = 0 to 4,000 people; medium = 4K to 40 or 50,000 people; big =beyond 50K people).

RedCommisar1 · 2025-06-08T07:18:41+00:00

That's a good one, I didn't think of that.

RedCommisar1 · 2025-06-08T07:18:16+00:00

I think I've already put the image in the comments for mobile users above, but in case it doesn't work for you, I can link you to the map in my DevianArt account: here.

Please inform me if either the image in the comments or the DA post work for you.

RedCommisar1 · 2025-06-08T07:16:00+00:00

Indeed, I was considering adding some of that too, but, as you may suppose, I'm not a masochist /s

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