In contrast to social democracy, democratic socialists advocate a post-capitalist economic system based either on market socialism combined with workers self-management, or on some form of participatory-economic planning.

Furthermore, the Rawalpindi meeting stated that the Pakistani socialists would advocate Kashmiri integration with Pakistan ahead of such a plebiscite.

Many libertarians, liberals, socialists, and anarchists advocate open immigration, notwithstanding other noteworthy differences among these political ideologies.

Some democratic socialists advocate market socialism based on workplace self-management, while others support a non-market system based on decentralized-participatory planning.

Libertarian socialists, Syndicalists, Trotskyists and democratic socialists advocate various forms of de-centralized planning and self-management.

Some libertarian socialists advocate combining these institutions using rotating, recallable delegates to higher-level federations.

In New York City's Greenwich Village, bohemian feminists and socialists advocated self-realisation and pleasure for women (and also men) in the here and now.

Many socialists have advocated a form of basic income or a social dividend as a means for distributing the economic profits of publicly owned and state-owned enterprises.

The socialists, however, advocate a proactive policy in favour of growth and employment, because in politics chanting has never produced results.

Reminded by the Commission that socialists advocated ownership of the industries by the state, Haywood remembered in his autobiography that he had drawn a clear distinction.