But that does not add up to the ideological, under-the-surface shift which precedes a change of government.
Under Mao, the ideological principles of class struggle primacy, central planning, and public ownership were mobilized to construct a class view of accounting according to which Western accounting concepts were prohibited because they were considered a tool of capitalist exploitation.
Although the projects quickly became victims of under-investment, poor management and the ideological power of home ownership and suburbia, they were only one of a number of ambitious American attempts to provide decent alternatives to the tyranny of the mortgage.
Although armed struggle was to be excluded under this policy, however, the ideological or class struggle was to continue.
"In this regard we're afraid that independent publishing in the country will soon become impossible, while the whole sphere of book industry will fall under the total ideological control" they said.
"The longer the delay stretches out, the more we have to ask what the reasons for the delay might be," said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union, which posted a notice about Mr. Yildiz's case on its blog under the title "Ideological Exclusion Again?" "I hope it doesn't have to do with Mr. Yildiz's human rights advocacy," Mr. Jaffer continued.
One can subscribe to a political methodology and still hold distinctly differing opinions on certain matters with others who are under the same ideological umbrella; this is how healthy discourse is created.
That could not be further from the ideological framework under which modern wars are fought.
A former senior editor at the Oz, Jim Buckell, wrote about how reporters had to duck and weave to escape the ideological campaigns under Mitchell.
She's done it before on women's issues, when a Fox commentator called maternity leave a "racket"; perhaps that makes it easier for her colleagues to reassure themselves that it was a girl thing, and pretend, as they fall through the holes in their logic, that the ideological ground under them is still there.
