[1] SL members share a common goal of orienting the Left Party firmly toward the labor movement.
They support demand-side economic policies, as well as public investment in "educational, social, ecological and transportation infrastructure".
[1][6] "Reforms and the struggle for a socialist society are not contradictory," the SL position papers state.
"Economic and social regulation, social-welfare structures, as well as the achievements of representative democracy can be the starting point for large changes to society".
[5] Adherents of the Trotskyist group Marx21 are among the leading members of the Socialist Left, especially in Berlin.