Many flags around the world are iconic, think the ones of France, Canada, South Africa, the Nordics, etc.

However, there are some that aren’t as good, like the Australian and New Zealand flags, both of which still retain the union jack with little Indigenous symbolism. Speaking as an Australian myself, our flag isn’t all that great! The Southern Cross is cool, but there is no hint of green/gold, and the union jack just looks tacked on. There are also many flags that look good, but the symbolism represents ideas that you’re against. Think Iran’s flag that draws heavily from their sect of Islam and the theocracy, or the PRC’s flag having the smaller stars representing the people surrounding the larger star representing the one party state. There’s also some that are okay, but a bit boring and hard of distinguish from the rest, and an additional element would make it stand out more.

And purple should be on more flags! Republican Spain during the 1930s had some purple, but they lost the civil war and the flag was replaced.

If you could change the national flags of the world, what would be your flag proposals?

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 天前

    You’re butchering the word “imperialism” to make a subjectivist argument. Calling the Sahel States “imperialist” for simply having states is extremely confusing when used in modern lingo, especially when imperialism is understood to be an international phenomenon. This is why using subjectivism is horribly unscientific, if you just label anything with a state as “imperialist,” all you’re doing is just saying you don’t like states and therefore want to pile all the negative descriptors you can onto it.

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      4 天前

      You’re butchering the word “imperialism” to make a subjectivist argument.

      lol, that’s pretty rich, coming from a .ml

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        I don’t see how. Marxist analysis of imperialism is based on a material process of capital export that happens when bank and industrial capital merge into finance capital. We don’t call state power “imperialism” because states serve a given ruling class depending on the mode of production, and imperialism is an international system.