If you read this blog regularly, you may have noticed the recent addition of a voluntaryist symbol, on the sidebar to the right. It is a striking symbol. The concept was developed by Niels van der Linden (of The Freedom Channel), and the final result was made by Shawn Huckabay (XOmniverse on YouTube).
Its meaning, I hope, is clear:
* The black and gold colours are taken from the Market Anarchist flag, and, respectively, represent Anarchy and the market.
* The outer and inner V stand for Victory (V for Victory) as well as Voluntaryism.
* The handshake at the top represents, as handshakes in general do, mutual trust, voluntary trade, and by extension society.
As a whole, it can also be said to represent two important facts: one, that our ultimate goal is to promote society against the State, and not any specific ideal, and two, that victory can only be achieved by voluntary means.
Feel free to use it in your designs or for any other endeavor.
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Very nice! It’s wonderful to have a symbol that hasn’t been corrupted by those who claim the title anarchist without almost no understanding of its underlying principles. I’ve added it to the top of my blog.
Thanks to you as well as Niels van der Linden and Shawn Huckabay.
By: aahz on July 25 2007
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[...] Francois Tremblay, of Check Your Premises, recently presented a new symbol whic can now be seen on the top of each page here at Philaahzophy. It’s called the Voluntary Victory symbol- [...]
By: New Anarchist Symbol : Philaahzophy on July 25 2007
at 17:32
Sorry, but I did not see the V, I only saw a triangle with equal sides.
By: kjeldflarup on August 2 2007
at 3:29
[...] why I’m proud to display his Voluntary Victory symbol in the header of Philaahzophy. I don’t think I could have explained the basic premise of [...]
By: Pushing The Political Easy Button : Philaahzophy on January 17 2008
at 1:52
However, it’s reminiscent of Ingsoc.
By: Zac on September 26 2008
at 13:49
This is excellent but where I can find the original file in a high resolution?
By: George Donnelly on March 25 2009
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Uh, nowhere.
By: Francois Tremblay on March 25 2009
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Shame about the original high-res not being available. If funding is needed to make one, someone pls let me know.
By: George Donnelly on July 2 2009
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Two years later, your visitors see an ironic article about the deep meaning of a symbol… that appears exactly nowhere on the page. :-(
By: Henry Bowman on October 25 2009
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Yes, well. I’m not gonna keep it on my site, since I now disagree with voluntaryism and all that it represents.
By: Francois Tremblay on October 25 2009
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