With manufacturing less than 5% of workers in core countries, and without a peasantry (more on that in a sec) the hammer and sickle symbol while iconic feels stuck in nostalgia to me. At the same time nothing I can come up with has the same resonance.
However I did come up with something silly I was hoping someone could sketch! Thinking it could be a spatula to represent service workers, a caduceus (shocked i got that right on the first try) to represent care workers over a steering wheel to represent transportation and logistics?
Also to the point about the peasantry, while there aren't peasants in most of the imperial core there is often a group of extremely oppressed non-citizen migrant farm workers whose experience cannot go unacknowledged. A really effective organization committed to justice and some vision of socialism must organize among them too because they deserve dignity and a decent life too.
We'd probably want the cables that are reaching out to be a little simpler, but that's a great idea!
I'm imagining it either radiating out from the central image (whatever we choose there), or maybe the main image is offset to the side and the cables run some distance 'away' down the flag.
My personal kick at the can for a design is this thing I whipped up quickly.
I wish I knew how to draw, because that just gave me an idea:
The cables forming a red star with the processor in the center
Ben Garrison of course you know how to draw! Your politics are shit, but at least you know how to draw.
MFW I went out-of-character on drawing...
I...mean....pardon me for not specifying dear fan, I meant that I wish I knew how to draw without giving something a fat ass. Which I would presume would be counterintuitive to the message.
Wow, I can NOT relate to that. Believe it or not, I'm jealous of even your tragic predicament. I can't even draw things with fat asses. Now that is a problem I'm familiar with and have deep empathy for.