Patlabor (yes, it's about cops but it's made by a bunch of leftists)
Ashita no Joe (written by a conservative funnily enough, but class conscious from a proletarian perspective)
Mobile Suit Gundam
sequels/spin-offs
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack
Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket
Armored Trooper VOTOMS
SPT Blue Comet Layzner (there's a rumor it got canceled by angry chud outrage back in '86)
Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 (lib but antifascist... despite the spaceship being literally a repurposed IJN WW2 ship)
Urusei Yatsura: 2 Beautiful Dreamer
Zombieland Saga (idol anime, but with some interesting twists)
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Rose of Versailles (beyond a very poorly handled plot arc near the end)
Welcome to the NHK (written by a real shut-in, it comes off as a "here is how capitalism preys on the weak")
Fang of the Sun Dougram (guerrilla war, the anime)
Dirty Pair (is somewhat horny, but generally has surprisingly good politics)
Most of these are from the past millennium, but I have a boomer anime bias - so I can't tell for sure if it became worse over time. Some aspects definitely did.
Patlabor (yes, it's about cops but it's made by a bunch of leftists)
Ashita no Joe (written by a conservative funnily enough, but class conscious from a proletarian perspective)
Mobile Suit Gundam
sequels/spin-offs
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack
Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket
Armored Trooper VOTOMS
SPT Blue Comet Layzner (there's a rumor it got canceled by angry chud outrage back in '86)
Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2199 (lib but antifascist... despite the spaceship being literally a repurposed IJN WW2 ship)
Urusei Yatsura: 2 Beautiful Dreamer
Zombieland Saga (idol anime, but with some interesting twists)
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Rose of Versailles (beyond a very poorly handled plot arc near the end)
Welcome to the NHK (written by a real shut-in, it comes off as a "here is how capitalism preys on the weak")
Fang of the Sun Dougram (guerrilla war, the anime)
Dirty Pair (is somewhat horny, but generally has surprisingly good politics)
Most of these are from the past millennium, but I have a boomer anime bias - so I can't tell for sure if it became worse over time. Some aspects definitely did.