Political colours are colours used to represent a political stance, a political ideology, or — in a telling use of terminology — a position on the political spectrum. While previously competing factions wore colours based on coats of arms or even, in Ancient Rome, racing colours, many colours have now become associated with ideology rather than personality.
BlueBlue (from Old High German "blao" shining) is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength (about 470 nm) of the three primary colors. A clear sky on a sunny day is colored blue because of Rayleigh scattering of the lig is often associated with Conservative parties, originating from its use by that party of the UK.
However, for much of the nineteenth century, the 'blues' in both FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. and ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer were moderate reforming conservatives, while the absolutist monarchists were whiteAlternate meanings: White (disambiguation White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color— black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. The impressions.
Another anomaly is that blue is associated with the somewhat left-wing Democratic Party of the United States.
BlackThis article is about the color black; for other uses, see Black (disambiguation). Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. Color or light Black can be defined as the visual impression experienced in directions from which no visible li is primarily associated with anarchismAnarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of hierarchy and imposed authority. These philosophies use anarchy to mean a society based on voluntary cooperation of free individual.
In the countries with a history of anti-clericalism in Europe and elsewhere in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the officials of the Catholic Church, because their vestments are often black, were called the Black International.
Recently, some persons associate it with fascism instead, despite the fact that it would be difficult to find any ideology more opposed to anarchism, and vice versa, than these two. An explanation given is that the Italian Fascists dressed in the famous 'black shirts' (as did the Nazi SS) while the Nazi Swastika was a black emblem on a white background. One could postulate 'flat black' as the tincture of Fascism, and 'gloss black' as that of Anarchism (from the Latin "âter" and "niger," respectively).
Brown has been associated with fascism, because Hitler's bully-boys in political street fights were called "brownshirts". In Europe and elsewhere in the twentieth century, fascists were sometimes called the Brown International.
White has been linked to pacifism (as in the surrender flag) and to independent politicians like Martin Bell. **Historically, it was associated with support for absolutist monarchists, first for supporters of the Bourbon dynasty of France, because it was the dynasty's color. Later it was used by the Czarist Whites in the Russian Revolution, because their purpose was similar.
Yellow is also associated with Hinduism, such as Hindu nationalist parties in India.
Yellow is more emphatically associated with Judaism. In the nineteenth century in Europe, anti-semites sometimes referred to Jews collectively as the Yellow International.
Light Blue is used for the field of the flag of the United Nations. It was chosen to represent peace because such a flag cannot be seen against a blue sky.
