Eh, I don’t know about blue to the right TBH. To me, right-wing is more associated with black, white and maybe yellow. Blue is more neutral, “stately” I suppose. Maybe it is a bit “royal” and therefore right-wing, but less so than those other colors
As for the symbolism in colors, I think it highly depends on your culture and environment. E.g. in Russian, the red color is associated with beauty/youthful strength (maybe because young people tend to have pinker skin or something, I don’t know for sure). In fact the association goes so far that the word “red” (красный) and “beautiful” (красивый) share the same root, and the former is considered an archaic but understandable synonym for the latter in certain contexts (красный молодец = “handsome lad”, literally “red young guy”)
I genuinely think the early soviet symbolism (and Chinese symbolism that was partially inherited from it) are so red because of this association. I know that the color red has been used for worker’s/mass movements before (e.g by Jacobins) but I suspect it has been significantly bolstered by this.
Eh, I don’t know about blue to the right TBH. To me, right-wing is more associated with black, white and maybe yellow. Blue is more neutral, “stately” I suppose. Maybe it is a bit “royal” and therefore right-wing, but less so than those other colors
As for the symbolism in colors, I think it highly depends on your culture and environment. E.g. in Russian, the red color is associated with beauty/youthful strength (maybe because young people tend to have pinker skin or something, I don’t know for sure). In fact the association goes so far that the word “red” (красный) and “beautiful” (красивый) share the same root, and the former is considered an archaic but understandable synonym for the latter in certain contexts (красный молодец = “handsome lad”, literally “red young guy”)
I genuinely think the early soviet symbolism (and Chinese symbolism that was partially inherited from it) are so red because of this association. I know that the color red has been used for worker’s/mass movements before (e.g by Jacobins) but I suspect it has been significantly bolstered by this.