The MLPD advocates for the establishment of a seizure of power through the proletariat, overthrowing current capitalist relations of production and replacing them with a new social order of socialist orientation.

The party says that the augmentation "Echt" ("Real") has the tactical purpose "to distinguish itself from the various distortions of modern revisionism and reformism",[6] like Trotskyism, which the MLPD calls a "petty-bourgeois divergence from Marxism".

[8][9] Additionally, MLPD describes the current governments People's Republic of China and North Korea as "bureaucratic-capitalist" countries.

In order to continue to make maximum profits, systematic environmental destruction through capitalist production has become a general necessity.

The party calls for a change in the basic guidelines of production, thinking, working and living, as well as scientific activity.

By abolishing the relationship between goods, the future dictatorship of the proletariat could focus on satisfying human needs in harmony with nature.

The party openly promotes critical literary works of Willi Dickhut, Vladimir Lenin, Friedrich Engels, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Karl Marx on their websites as well as in their meetings.

The MLPD participated in the 2005 federal elections, generally positioning itself in campaigns as a radical alternative to the Left Party.

An example of this is when the former chairman of the party, Stefan Engel, was forced to leave the IG Metall and became a member of Ver.di, which does not take a stance against the MLPD.