The Politics of Love
The Politics of Love is a radical vision of politics.
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Since 2015, Philip McKibbin has been developing the Politics of Love. Now, he's raising funds to give talks on this vision of politics in other countries. Please help him share the Politics of Love by making a donation.
What is the Politics of Love?
Philip McKibbin
It engages feeling, thought, and action to create better communities.
Politics is a dimension of ethics; it concerns how we live together. Love is a way of relating: to ourselves, each other, non-human animals, and the natural environment. It involves care, concern, and commitment – and it requires work.
This vision of politics celebrates love. It upholds critical commitments to mutuality, radical equality, non-violence, inclusion, and philosophical honesty; and it affirms loving values – such as compassion, responsibility, and trust – which can guide action and inform policy.
The Politics of Love has precedents in the everyday acts of kindness we show one another; our interpersonal relationships; as well as Indigenous struggle, and feminist, civil rights, and LGBTQI+ movement. Love resists oppression – and so, the Politics of Love is anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-capitalist, and opposed to all forms of domination, including domination of non-human animals and the natural environment. It insists that everyone belongs and all of us have worth.
The Politics of Love can be thought of as a round space, within which we gather with our diverse knowledges and histories, to debate and deliberate. It is from here that we act.
With love, we will transform our world.
Featured contributions
A Place for Love? – Philip McKibbin and Adam Custins
The Politics of Love is possible. But it won't just happen. Love is a journey that each of us must embark on and all of us must share in.
Interview: Moana Jackson
They say 'politics is the art of the possible', but politics should also be the vision of what some see as the impossible.
Love, Politics, and Veganism – Carla Alicia Suárez Félix and Philip McKibbin
The Politics of Love asks us what we will do now, for love, to make our world a better place for all of those who share it.
Interview: Golriz Ghahraman
For me, the model is that you engage with public life as much as you do with private life, and that's what love looks like.
Drawing Connections – Rebecca Lindum Greene
Playing in harmony as one, we move from the Art of War to the Art of Love.
Interview: Stacy Russo
Love activism presents a new way to think of activism and the life of an activist.
Philip McKibbin is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, of Pākehā (NZ European) and Māori (Ngāi Tahu) descent. His book Love Notes: for a Politics of Love is published by Lantern. He co-organised 'The Politics of Love: A Conference' at All Souls College, Oxford. www.philip-mckibbin.com
Michika Hatano is an artist from Japan. She has worked as a graphic designer, and she started to get involved in animal rights activism in 2018. She produces artwork for anti-oppressive movements. www.instagram.com/potatelier