Also, we need the state to act in the best interest of the people it serves, instead of in being held hostage by a few with much economic weight.

The state should wield power it derives from the mandate given to it by it's people, and it should defend the capability to influence the economy with that.

This fact seems to have been forgotten since the end of the cold war, when neoliberal theory seems to have been the defacto "truth" in economics.