Ingawa sera ya kujitegemea ilijumuisha hatua nyingi zenye malengo ya kisiasa, wafuasi wa sera hiyo wanaona kwamba inawakilisha msingi wa kiuchumi wa kimsingi, ambao unafupishwa katika ukweli kwamba nchi inayomiliki malighafi, kemikali, mashine na nguvu kazi inapaswa kuweza kuishi. Jambo muhimu hapa litakuwa upangaji. Mtaji, kwa upande wake, ni wa pili. Serikali ndiyo inayojichagulia mpango wa kisiasa, ambao kwao huwasilisha usimamizi wa kiuchumi na kifedha. Ili sera ya kujitegemea ifikie lengo lake, ambalo lingekuwa kuifanya uchumi wa ndani uweze kujitegemea, serikali inapaswa kuwa tayari kuishi bila mahitaji mengi, kwa kuwa sera ya kujitegemea ingeifanya nchi kushindwa kutimiza mahitaji yake yote. Kilicho muhimu kwa sera hii ni kuweza kutimiza mahitaji ya msingi ya mtu binafsi, taifa na Dola, huku ikitegemea kikamilifu uchumi wa ndani, kwa namna itakayoiweka katika mwelekeo wa kupanda. Kwa hiyo, Dola inayoendesha sera ya kujitegemea katika biashara ya nje ingelazimika kuziunganisha nchi ambazo inazihitaji ili kupata malighafi, masoko, nguvu kazi, wataalamu n.k. Uunganishaji huu ungechukua ama sura ya kuungana moja kwa moja, au ile ya mikataba ya kibiashara. Kuhusu kuondolewa kwa mipaka ya kiuchumi, hii ingemaanisha kuziunganisha nchi, yaani kuondoa mipaka ya kisiasa, kwani isingewezekana kuondoa mipaka ya kiuchumi bila kuondoa mipaka ya kisiasa. Ikiwa Dola haingeweza kuziunganisha nchi ambazo inazihitaji ili kupata vifaa inavyokosa, basi katika hali hii ingevumilia bila kutimiza baadhi ya mahitaji yake, huku ikilenga kuepuka uhaba wa mahitaji ya msingi, kwani katika hali hiyo isingeweza kuvumilia, ilhali kukosa mahitaji yasiyo ya msingi kungeweza kuvumilika.
Although the policy of self-sufficiency represented in fact a host of measures which had political aims, the champions of such policy deem that it represents a fundamental economic basis, which is summarised in the fact that a country who possesses raw materials, chemicals, machines and manpower, should be able to survive. The point at hand would be organisation. As for capital, this is secondary. It is the government which chooses for itself a political program, to which they submit the economic and financial management. In order for the policy of self-sufficiency to achieve its aim, which would be to render the local economy able to be self-sufficient, the government should be prepared to manage without many of it’s needs; because the policy of self-sufficiency would make a country unable to fulfil all her needs. What is important for this policy is to be able to fulfil the basic needs of the individual, the nation and the State while relying exclusively on the local economy, in a manner that would set her in an upward trend. Therefore, the State which operates a policy of self-sufficiency in foreign trade would be obliged to annexe the countries she would need in order to acquire raw materials, markets, manpower, and experts etc. This annexation would either take the form of a direct merger, or that of commercial treaties. As for the abolition of economic frontiers, this would mean annexing the country i.e. abolishing the political borders, for it would be impossible to abolish economic borders without the abolishment of the political borders. If the State could not annexe the countries that she needs in order to acquire the materials she lacks, she should in this case persevere without fulfilling some of her needs, while aiming to avoid a shortage of basic necessities, for in such a case she would not be able to persevere, whereas lacking non basic necessities could be afforded.