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Seems like a silly question but I couldn't find any satisfactory explanation online. Five finger hand? Five continents? Stylish hat worn by Che Guevara? It's in basically every revolutionary flag and even in some social-democratic parties, so it must mean something.

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[–] Leninismydad@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 11 months ago

My knowledge on the star in Vietnam at least is each point represents a group of people: proletariat, peasantry, military, intellectuals, and petty bourgeoisie.

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Not that many shapes are easily fashioned for producing crude flags. The Chinese flag represents the party with the big star and the four revolutionary (in the semi-feudal period) classes of the peasantry, proletariat, petty and national bourgeoisies.

Yellow has been a common secondary color for communist iconography and the star was an important regimental symbol. The two overlapped over time.

[–] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

I've heard it symbolises the communist party