It aims less for immediate profits than for long-range development of productive forces, which it believes will produce the best results for everyone in the end. Instead of letting entrepreneurs and workers waste themselves in piecemeal and fragmentary and competitive activities, it will strive to integrate them all. It will create a historically new synthesis of private and public power, symbolized by the union of Mephistopheles, the private freebooter and predator who executes much of the dirty work, and Faust, the public planner who conceives and directs the work as a whole.
Its goal is to foster long-term development rather than immediate profits. It believes that this will lead to the best results for everyone in the future. Instead of having entrepreneurs and workers engage in isolated, fragmented, and competitive activities, it aims to integrate them all. This synthesis will combine private and public power, symbolized by Mephistopheles, who handles the dirty work, and Faust, who oversees the project as a whole.