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There is libertarian socialism, or anarchism - which seems very promising. Essentially the extension of democracy into the workplace. In Spain in 1936 by all accounts it was very successful and popular. Productivity improved dramatically and petty crime became non existent. However it was crushed by the combined force of western democracies, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. They hate democracy. Not surprising - democracy is a threat to any power system.

Libya until recently had a very interesting political system where all decisions had to be ratified by the population. Unfortunately that was also overthrown by an invasion, unfortunately a rather common pattern with this kind of thing (Chile under Allende, Guetemala 1953, etc.)