Isis desperately tries to reinvent the early ideological antagonism between the imperialistic modern west and its traditionalist enemies.
One major difference between then and now is the absence of ideological antagonism: the postwar Soviet empire proclaimed the advantage of the socialist path over the capitalist one.
According to Tymoshenko, her conflict with the President was a political competition and not ideological antagonism, and she emphasized early in February 2009 that the "election struggle for the next presidential elections has virtually begun".
In 1950, when the American Political Science Association report was published, Schlesinger wondered whether the new sorting-out was feasible "without a reorganization of our parties on taut ideological lines" that might inflame antagonisms rooted deep in the native temper.
In my opinion, both of these extreme ideological perspectives are not only inaccurate generalizations - they are tearing the church apart by creating and perpetuating the antagonism on the other side.
Politics was not ideological.
