Guaranteeing full employment, universal access to necessities, and a living income.
Setting the relationship between present and future consumption through determining the share of GDP to be allocated to investment and growth.
Allocating investment to sectors and regions, which they in turn reallocate within their respective jurisdictions.
Generating the revenue for its activities.
Curbing impediments to society’s solidarity and equality goals not only across individuals/households but across workplace collectives, sectors, and regions.
The constant development, through educational institutions and at work, of popular functional skills and democratic and cultural capacities.
Governing the pace of decommodification through the distribution of expenditures between collective and individual consumption.
Regulating the production-leisure trade-off by influencing the share of productivity that goes to producing more vs producing the same with fewer hours of work.
Enforcing the stringent adherence to environmental standards, with the state ownership and pricing of resources, as well as allocation of investment, being critical here.
Navigating the relationship with what will likely still be a predominantly capitalist global economy.