10 Eye-Opening Political Perspectives You’re Missing Out On

Politics can often be frustrating and polarizing, but seeking out new ideas and perspectives can bring a breath of fresh air to our outlook. Here are ten political perspectives you may not have considered, but are well worth exploring.

1. Libertarian Socialism

Not everyone who identifies as a socialist believes in state-controlled economies. Libertarian socialism is a blend of anarchist and socialist theories that advocates for decentralization of power and economic democracy.

2. Anarcho-Communism

Often wrongly conflated with anarchy in popular discourse, anarcho-communism seeks to establish a classless society based on communal ownership and shared responsibility.

3. Mutualism

Mutualism embraces free markets with socially responsible investments and workers’ cooperatives. It hinges on the idea of establishing a balance between economic interests and social priorities without centralized authority.

4. Ecological Economics

This field of financial thought seeks to prove that humans can’t divorce their economies from nature. Economic policy should balance environmental interests with industrial potential.

5. Animal Rights Politics

Animal rights politics represent a viable form of progressive intersectional politics, and recent success stories such as the banning of animal testing in India in 2013 shows movement toward enacting policies conducive of animal rights campaigns.

6. Feminist Political Theory

The feminist political movement gained much more attention following the MeToo scandal, there are different schools of thought within feminism need to be discussed such as Intersectionality; involving intersections between race, sexuality, gender identifications, and politics, liberal feminism who believe in equal rights and opportunities and Radical feminism who believes in erasing of patriarchy.

7. Communitarianism

It’s a form of social theory which emphasizes the essential role of culture, communal ownership in social decision making and practices governing social behavior, and civil society.

8. Social Corporatism

Social corporatism involves businesses, labor unions, and the government working for the “common-goods.” Governments of Sweden and Austria worked with social corporatism during the 1940s and post-WWII Europe which increased prosperity for the working class.

9. Digital Socialism

Technologies offer exciting opportunities for democratization and de-corporation of ownership. Both socialists and capitalists acknowledge AI will lead to large job-losses in the coming decades. Digital socialists propose creating intelligent machines for the greater agricultural and manufacturing wealth and share these advancements collectively.

10. Democratic Ownership

One form of democratic ownership is co-operatives, member-owned businesses that offer organized restrictions on ideological concentrationl. Applied to any commerce spectrum, preventing wage gaps between higher and lower managers/showing stable employment stories different from large corporations making employee history unpredictable thereby perpetuating wealth divide as in capitalist societies.

By recognizing these different viewpoints of politics, one may avoiding diminishing the complexity. These various ways of looking at economics/culture and inclusive types of activism/social news are vigorously evolving granting different spaces within intellectual traditions, setting up a dominant discourse, also reshaping present challenges that face society in general.