Red maintains communism as its ultimate goal in its own official political program.[1] The label is a result of many of the party's leading members promoting communist values, either currently or previously; notable examples are Erling Folkvord and former party leader, Torstein Dahle. The party's main principles are based on replacing capitalism with a socialist society, including a strong public sector and nationalization of large businesses, while its core ideology espouses the revolutionary socialist aims for "the workers" to "take the power", and the creation of new legislatures.[2] The party however makes clear that it does not support the "armed revolution" formerly espoused by its predecessors.[7]