text: The party has campaigned relentlessly against what it calls "welfare profiteurs". It argues that current models for public financing of kindergartens and caring homes, which allows for private persons or companies to retain profits derived from public funds, enables and encourages owners of private establishments to offer lower pay and pensions.
  Views on democracy
  The party argues capitalism is inherently undemocratic as "not only the decisive power over the large banks and companies are in the hands of a small economic elite, but also the decisions taken within these organizations are dictated from above". It recognizes the inherent particapatory aspects of civil organizations and associations, and wishes to implement the same principles at the workplace.
  The explicit mention of communism in its programme has been the subject of long-standing controversy domestically and within the party. After being challenged on the party's position on liberal democracy in 2012, then party leader Moxnes wrote in  that "free speech, freedom of association, free elections, free media, and independent courts that guarantee rule of law for individuals are fundamental for a socialist society". The party is programatically and ideologically committed to communism as of 2017, but also to the deepening of democratic institutions.